{"id":48818,"date":"2021-02-04T09:23:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-seeks-to-boost-health-insurance-subsidies\/"},"modified":"2021-02-04T16:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:23:52","slug":"new-mexico-seeks-to-boost-health-insurance-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-seeks-to-boost-health-insurance-subsidies\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico seeks to boost health insurance subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=692509d0-0e88-43d1-87e8-03beb74d5a2d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Heath workers administer COVID-19 nasal swab tests inside the New Mexico State Capitol on Thursday in Santa Fe.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Heath workers administer COVID-19 nasal swab tests inside the New Mexico State Capitol on Thursday in Santa Fe.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Cedar Attanasio\/Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A first legislative hearing was scheduled for Wednesday on a bill that would substitute a state surtax on insurance premiums for a slightly smaller federal fee that expired late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds would be used to pay down premiums and other out-of-pocket costs for individuals and families obtaining insurance through the state\u2019s exchange, an outgrowth of the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>State insurance regulators hope the measure might extend insurance coverage to 23,000 people who go without coverage.<\/p>\n<p>States including Colorado, Delaware and New Jersey have enacted a similar fee.<\/p>\n<p>In New Mexico, it could increase state government revenues by an estimated $153 million annually. About $115 million would go toward lowering consumer costs for insurance, with the remainder transferred to the state general fund.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico completes the transition this year to its own self-contained marketplace for insurance. About 43,000 people relied on the exchange for insurance access last year.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden last week ordered government health insurance markets to reopen for a special sign-up window, offering uninsured Americans a haven amid the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico residents have flocked to Medicaid health care, with 43% enrollment statewide as of November as the coronavirus wreaks economic havoc and shifts the way people receive health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>workers administer COVID-19 nasal swab tests inside the New Mexico State Capitol on Thursday in Santa Fe.Cedar Attanasio\/Associated Press A first legislative hearing was scheduled for Wednesday on a bill that would substitute a state surtax on insurance premiums for a slightly smaller federal fee that expired late last year. Proceeds would be used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[815],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-associated-press-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48818"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}