04/03/2026
Our trailblazing Governor!
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When Republicans in Congress canceled Affordable Care Act subsidies, families across America faced an impossible choice — drop coverage or drain savings.
Not here.
New Mexico is the only state in the U.S. to fully replace those lost federal subsidies — preventing an estimated 27,000 New Mexicans from becoming uninsured. Instead of losing enrollees, we broke enrollment records.
This didn't happen overnight — and women in leadership made it happen. Back in 2013, Governor Susana Martinez expanded Medicaid, one of the first and few Republicans to do so. In 2019, I ran for governor on a promise to make health care more affordable and accessible because it was clear that the first Trump administration would eliminate the federal health insurer tax — and they did. After I was elected, state Rep. Deborah Armstrong, a health care expert, helped me get a bill passed in 2021 that retained New Mexico’s health insurer tax and put that revenue into a Healthcare Affordability Fund. I was proud to sign that bill into law and the fund has since served more than 140,000 New Mexicans.
This legislative session, we did more, passing medical malpractice reform, health care provider compacts, investment in rural healthcare, and protections from the next wave of federal premium increases. I was proud to sign those bills, too, because they will benefit all New Mexicans.
Credit for New Mexico’s health care success story goes to a lot of people including Armstrong, who helped plant the seeds of this vision years ago, and Rep. Reena Szczepanski, who worked to protect the Health Care Affordability Fund for the long haul.
Healthcare in New Mexico is national model for government that actually works for the people.
Read the NY Times Article here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/health/obamacare-new-mexico-subsidies-states.html
