"Legislative Session Yields Healthcare Wins For New Mexicans"
That's the headline of Rep. Debbie Armstrong's post-session commentary, published last weekend by KRWG. In it, she lists 8 health care wins, including funding for Health Security:
“A supplemental funding budget bill includes $575,000 for the state to plan and design an innovative program to provide healthcare coverage to all New Mexicans.”
The purpose of the Health Security Planning & Design Board Act was to set up a design process for the Health Security Plan—and that's ultimately what happened. We want to thank Rep. Armstrong, Rep. Tara Lujan, and Rep. Patricia Roybal-Caballero for sponsoring the bill.
We also want to thank those who allocated some of their Junior funds to the Health Security planning and design process:
Without these 7 representatives (and 1 more mystery representative who hasn't been identified yet!), Health Security wouldn't be moving forward this year.
And we'd especially like to thank Rep. Armstrong and Paul Gibson, of Campaign member organization Retake Our Democracy, for their instrumental role in rounding up this funding by asking sympathetic House members to consider donating a portion of their funds to developing the details of the Health Security Plan. Our executive director, Mary Feldblum, was also indispensable in this effort.
Finally, we'd like to thank you. Those of you with representatives on the House committees called and emailed their representatives, asking them to support HB 203. And so many more of you were eagerly awaiting your turn to do the same. You joined HB 203's first committee hearing to register your support of the bill and were all ready for the second hearing as well. And you stuck with us even when it was unclear what path Health Security would take. We are grateful to all of you!
