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Patients pay the price for lack of bold reform
Every fall, New Mexicans roast their chile, watch balloons rise and breathe the piñon-scented air. Yet even as we celebrate tradition, too many families wait months for medical appointments, drive hours for care, or face the heartbreak of losing their doctors. Behind...
Lawmakers blast law professor who claimed New Mexico doesn’t have doctor shortage
By Daniel J. ChacónA Northwestern University law professor who appeared before New Mexico lawmakers to discuss the effects of medical malpractice reform kicked off his presentation Tuesday by calling himself an equal opportunity annoyer. “Sometimes my research annoys...
Denish: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
The New Mexico Legislature just wrapped up a special session convened by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. The goal was to protect New Mexicans from looming federal budget cuts to healthcare and public broadcasting. Most of the attention focused on shoring up...
New nonprofit aims to elevate patient voices amid doctor shortage in New Mexico
As New Mexico grapples with a shortage of physicians, lawmakers have voiced frustration over what they describe as a broken health care system in the state. Doctors themselves have sounded the alarm, some advocating for medical malpractice reform and others taking to...
GOP lawmakers convene task force to examine potential medical malpractice reforms
New Mexico Senate Republicans convened a task force Monday to explore reforms to the state’s long-criticized medical malpractice system. The five GOP lawmakers argued New Mexico’s health care system lacks balance: It’s skewed, they said, in the favor of a few injured...
Press Release: Patient-Led NM Launches Statewide Summits and Video Campaign to Spotlight New Mexico’s Healthcare Crisis
A Call for New Mexicans to Demand Policy Reform That Secures Timely Access to High-Quality CareSanta Fe, NM – September 30, 2025 – Patient-Led NM today announced the launch of a series of Healthcare Summits across New Mexico alongside a new patient video campaign...
Number of doctors leaving small towns reaches new high
Doctors are leaving rural communities across the country at alarming rates. A study published by Avalere and Physicians Advocacy Institute, a nonprofit healthcare professional advocacy group, earlier this year reported that between Jan. 1, 2019 and Jan. 24, 2024 rural...
Fixing malpractice, GRT and compacts could keep doctors here
I attended a statewide Indivisible conference earlier this year in which a New Mexico trial attorney stated no, the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association did not oppose interstate licensing compacts and that New Mexico does not need to amend our medical malpractice...
New Mexico’s health care crisis is forcing military personnel to decline assignments
About a year after Christine Calhoun and her family moved to Cannon Air Force Base, her 5-year-old son woke up from a nap and didn’t remember her. “It was horrifying,” Calhoun said. In Clovis, the closest city to Cannon, there are no pediatric neurologists. That...
Dark Money Group Unmasked by State Ethics Commission
Earlier this year a dark money group called “New Mexico Safety Over Profit” (NMSOP) was sued by the state Ethics Commission for refusing to comply with the state law that required them to disclose the sources of their funding. NMSOP was the public face of the...
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