New Mexico Mercury

KOAT picks up our Glyphosate story (video)

Although no credit was given to New Mexico Mercury, it's nice to know that some local news outlets are paying attention to our stories. After our piece on the use of Glyphosate by city, county and state governments in New Mexico, Susan Clair, who's interviewed in the article, was contacted by KOAT for their brief piece. Our original story was written by our intern Svetlana Ozden, who studies at UNM and was a former editor at the Daily Lobo...

Health Reform Update: Off to a Rocky Start

The Health Insurance Exchange is the only mechanism we have at the moment to extend health care to the uninsured and I was as disappointed as anyone with the Federal Exchange’s inability to handle the high volume of hits to its website and then to fix the problems two weeks into implementation.  I hear it is getting better but still not smooth sailing...

Insight New Mexico - Susan Clair

V.B. Price talks with natural health expert and cancer survivor Susan Clair about utilizing nutrition as a curative and preventative medicine.

Ask Your Doctor

The quick fixes of Big Pharma propaganda have separated us from a common sense notion of health.

Countdown to Health Reform III

The New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange opened October 1, and it is clear there are some hiccups as an enterprise as massive as this one moves into action.  But they will get over these growing pains and will get it together. Individuals without coverage or those wanting to change their coverage will have six months (October 1, 2013 – March 31, 2014) to enroll through the Exchange.  Anyone can enroll now, but the policies will not be effective until January 1, 2014. So you have time to learn about using the Exchange.

Below are a few suggestions for those who want to purchase coverage...

Countdown to Health Reform II

With less than two weeks to go, a critical component of the ACA, the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange, unveiled its new look and commitment to becoming part of the landscape of New Mexico starting October 1, 2013.  The new website was unveiled Tuesday morning and you can check it out at: BeWellNM.com. In addition, the Exchange is getting ready to initiate a campaign of radio and television advertisements touting its services shortly...

Countdown to health care reform

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is barely one month away from its first major milestone on October 1, 2013 when Health Insurance Exchanges (HIX) will be operational.  The HIX is the marketplace for individual and small businesses to purchase affordable health insurance. As this deadline approaches, a flurry of anxiety and confusion will inevitably surface. Change is never easy even when it’s simple – and changes in health care are never simple...

The Other Side of the Behvioral Health Audit

A new video gives a voice to those affected by the state's behavioral health audit which has shuttered the majority of New Mexican providers, seen their jobs outsourced to Arizona-based operations and caused what appears to be widespread disruption of services.

UNM involved in privatizing medical care in NM‏

Why is the UNM Health Sciences Center (UNMHSC) so keen to go into business with private Texas investors who were part of the largest medical fraud scandal in US history? The UNM Board of Regents has enabled the UNM Health Sciences Center to enter into a part-ownership deal with the for-profit LHP Hospital Group to buy up the Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services Hospital in Gallup. UNM will have a 20% stake.

The leadership of UNMHSC is being careless with our taxpayer money and trust.  Either they choose to ignore the background of their business partners, or perhaps they just don’t know how to do a simple Google search...

The problems with Jamie Oliver’s idea of a food revolution

Jamie Oliver claims that he doesn’t understand modern-day poverty in the U.K. Yeah. That sounds about right.

In a recent interview promoting Jamie Oliver’s new television series and book, Oliver said, "I'm not judgmental, but I've spent a lot of time in poor communities, and I find it quite hard to talk about modern-day poverty. You might remember that scene in [a previous series] Ministry of Food, with the mum and the kid eating chips and cheese out of Styrofoam containers, and behind them is a massive f****** TV.” Perhaps with one of his TV shows on it...