I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Since December 2008 A.V. Ley has experienced two double-digit increases to the monthly health care premiums he pays Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico, he says. So when the retired engineer learned Monday that New Mexico had won a $1 million federal grant to strengthen how New Mexico vets health insurers’ rate-hike requests, he cheered. New Mexico was one of 45 states to win $1 million Monday to help beef up how it reviews rate-hike requests by health insurers. U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on a conference call with reporters Monday characterized the money as a way to “restore some basic fairness” for consumers who find themselves battling a perennial rise in the cost of health care.
New Mexico was one of 45 states to win $1 million Monday to help crack down on health insurance premium increases, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced.
New Mexico plans to use the federal dollars…
The state has won $385,000 in federal money to help rural, low-income New Mexico families using propane and wood burning stoves to meet their home heating needs, the state Human Services Department announced Wednesday.
Families eligible for receiving the…
As soon as October New Mexicans and small businesses here will be able to comparison shop on options for health insurance, state officials said Thursday.
A federal website should be up and running by summer to provide consumers general information…
The new federal health care reform law may add millions of Americans to the ranks of the insured. Much less unheralded, says a national consumers group, is the law’s attempt to reduce the number of hospital-acquired infections, a problem that has garnered scrutiny over the past decade. The new act, signed into law by President Obama last month, also will require more public reporting of medical errors, such as infections, at hospitals, something that is not yet occurring in New Mexico.
