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This is paid for by the oil and gas boom in Southern NM. The medical situation is getting worse by the year, though. I don’t think it’s just a matter of shovel
by lp251 1y ago
This is paid for by the oil and gas boom in Southern NM.
The medical situation is getting worse by the year, though. I don’t think it’s just a matter of shoveling more dollars
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoWhat I was told, was it was anti-undocumented stuff. People don’t want immigrants getting help that residents pay for, so they turn the spigots off for everyone.
- pavon 1y agoI haven't seen anything like that. The biggest factor you can clearly point to is that NM has some of the lowest salaries for doctors combined with some of the highest medical insurance premiums.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoIf you live there, and don't agree, then I stand corrected. I was told this by someone that lives there, but that's a sample size of 1 (from Albuquerque).
- pbk1 1y agoI went on a road trip through Southern NM a couple years ago. Highly recommend stopping at Gila National Forest - it's a certified "dark park", remote enough from sources of light to see the Milky Way with the naked eye. One thing that struck me - towns down there had a template. 90% of towns we drove through were just a blood plasma "donation" center, a dollar store, a gas station, and a cemetery. Very bleak existence out there, oil and gas boom notwithstanding.
- elteto 1y agoThat is a very common pattern. Probably 90% of poor rural America is like that. And the lucky towns have those stores, others not even.
- johnbellone 1y agoThat sounds amazing. It is now on the travel list!
- silisili 1y agoThe icing on the cake there was that they just gerrymandered NM recently in a way that took all representation away from southern NM. I know other states have as well, so nothing new there, but seeing as they basically fund all the state's social projects, felt a bit done wrong.