New Mexico Health Insurance

How healthy is living
in New Mexico?

New Mexico has dropped a spot from its 2010 position and is now ranked as the 34th healthiest state to live in, according to the 2011 America's Health Rankings® by the United Health Foundation.

New Mexico's best and worst category rankings:

• Binge Drinking – 1st
• Immunization Coverage – 8th
• Preventable Hospitalizations – 46th
• Diabetes – 46th
• Cancer Deaths – 46th
• Violent Crime – 47th

more details

• See the United Health Foundation's latest findings on New Mexico.
• Trust for America's Health ia another source for key New Mexico health quality findings. In addition, 2010's federal health reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), included the creation of a prevention fund to provide more than $16 billion over the next 10 years to invest in effective, proven prevention efforts, like childhood obesity prevention and tobacco cessation, and the site has a report on how it impacts New Mexico here.

get local health results

State snapshot too large? Get county-by-county health rankings for New Mexico, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.

Does New Mexico have a health insurance high risk pool?

New Mexico Medical Insurance Pool
(505) 622-4711

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Starting in 2010, New Mexico started offering health care insurance coverage to residents through the federally established temporary high-risk pool program. To find out more about New Mexico's participation, click here.

Risk pools are state-sponsored programs to help people with a history of medical problems in their family to purchase coverage. These pools are for people who can afford to buy health insurance, but are not able to get underwritten in the private market because of a pre-existing health condition. These programs can vary significantly from state to state in price, benefits and number of people served. Often insurance companies doing business in the state are required to contribute to the pool to keep it in the black. In the best cases, they allow people to be able to switch jobs or become self-employed without the fear of losing their health insurance coverage. Read more about risk pools here.

Non-profit sources of health insurance information for New Mexico

• The Foundation for Health Coverage Education's mission is to provide simplified public and private health insurance eligibility information in order to help more people access coverage. Here is its guide to guide on how to find health insurance in New Mexico.
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is tracking the progress of health insurance reform in each state. Its page for New Mexico can be found here.
• The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, non-profit organization that, among other things, provides health care plan report cards for consumers. Search for New Mexico health insurance plan report cards.

New Mexico state government health insurance resources

New Mexico Medical Assistance Division —  The Medicaid assistance division of the New Mexico state government.

New Mexikids —  No cost or low cost health coverage for children under 19 years old. If your household income is less than 185% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, health care services are provided to your child at no cost. If your household income is between 185% – 235% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, some of the health [...]

New Mexico Public Regulation Commission Insurance Division —  Provides convenient access to consumers to reliable insurance products which are underwritten by dependable and financially sound companies. The division strives to ensure that these companies have a proven history of fair and reasonable rates and are represented by trustworthy and qualified agents.

How did New Mexico officials vote on health reform?

H.R.2: Repealing the Health Care Bill

#14

Date of Vote: 1/19/2011 Status: House passed 245-189, 1 not voting

HOUSE|SENATE

1/19/2011--Passed House amended. Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, effective as of its enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act. Repeals the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education and Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of the Act's enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by the Act's health care provisions. [more]

Yes (1)

• Steven Pearce

Our
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No (2)

• Martin Heinrich

• Ben Lujan