Let鈥檚 Talk New Mexico, 4/10/25, 8am: About use Medicaid to cover their health care expenses. It covers more than 83 million people nationally. The covered are children, people of color, and those with disabilities who rely on long-term care. In the recently concluded legislative session, lawmakers passed to create a state Medicaid trust fund to help offset future costs and it was signed by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on April 8. However, potentially deep federal funding cuts, including to Medicaid, may hit right away.
On the next Let鈥檚 Talk New Mexico, we鈥檒l discuss the evolving plans for federal funding cuts to Medicaid and what it could mean for health care in our state with policy experts, the state hospital association and a physician.
Do you or your family rely on medicaid for health care? Could you afford to purchase insurance from the state marketplace if you had to? Do you work in a clinic that may not be able to weather major cuts in medicaid funding? Email letstalk@kunm.org, leave a voice message by clicking the link below, or call in live at (505) 277-5866 Thursday morning at 8.
Guests:
- Kari Armijo, Secretary,
- Troy Clark, President and CEO,
- Dr. Nancy Wright, pediatrician, , past president of
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