In this E-short edition from New Mexico 2050, health and health care specialist Nandini Pillai Kuehn examines the complex subject of health in New Mexico. She describes the issues involved in health outcomes for the state—including race and ethnicity, socioeconomic factors, and insurance—and how the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has impacted the health system, as well as possible scenarios for New Mexico’s future.
About the author
Fred Harris, JD with distinction, is a twice-elected former U.S. senator from Oklahoma and a longtime professor—now professor emeritus—of political science at the University of New Mexico, where he is still director of the UNM Fred Harris Congressional Internship Program. An award-winning author of three novels, he has also produced nineteen nonfiction books on public policy, politics, and government, including, as coeditor, Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States, and, as coauthor, a recent e-book, These People Want to Work: Immigration Reform.