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Dr. Bruce Trigg is a pediatrician and public health physician who retired three years ago from the NM Department of Health after 23 years. He currently treats patients who are addicted to drugs in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Dr. Trigg is a long time single-payer/Medicare for All activist with Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and the New Mexico Network of Health Professionals for a National Health Program (NHP Squared). He recently returned to New Mexico after living and working in Southeast Asia and India for nine months.
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...
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30. August 2013
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