New Mexico Legislature Funds Medicaid Buy-In Study

In the final days of its session the New Mexico legislature passed legislation to fund a Medicaid Buy-In study for the upcoming fiscal year. New Mexican lawmakers have spent the past two years considering a Medicaid Buy-In, and, now that the legislature and the governor are both on board, advocates of the proposal hope it will pass next year. The Democratic-sponsored legislation would provide $142,000 to the state’s Human Services Department to study the Buy-In. Democrats in the state have...