New Mexico In Depth (https://nmindepth.com/author/deborah-busemeyer/)
Expanding Medicaid is the only optional part of federal health-care reform upheld by the nation’s top court in June. The decision whether New Mexico will allow tens of thousands of adults to get Medicaid is in the hands of Gov. Susana Martinez.
Medical providers have to come up with ways to help New Mexico through a national and local provider shortage that’s likely to worsen when more people enter the system because of federal health-care reform.
The New Mexico Health Policy Commission, a state agency that provided independent research and policy recommendations until its budget was eliminated in 2010, wrote a report that year detailing recommendations for addressing the health workforce shortage.