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Project Description
Access to adequate and affordable health care is an issue receiving a lot of attention by both state and federal governments. In New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson established a task force to explore how to provide affordable access to health care and the result was a series of recommendations from a study conducted by Mathmatica Policy Institute. These recommendations are not unlike many of the proposals emerging in other states. However, what was missing from the recommendations was a clear picture of how this issue plays out in the minds of New Mexicans. As a result, researchers at the University of New Mexico received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at UNM for a collaborative effort to examine public preferences for the primary recommendations culminating from the aforementioned study. In addition to illustrating how New Mexicans evaluate the recommendations from the governor’s study involving single payer systems and the use of vouchers, we also present information about how New Mexicans value health care as a public good. Additionally, this study provides insight into perspectives on who should be covered under a state health care program and how much New Mexicans are willing to pay for such a program. These issues are analyzed across a variety of demographic, socioeconomic and political measures with an emphasis on differences between White, non-Hispanic and Latino populations. From this perspective the authors believe this research provides a clear example of deploying survey research for the public good
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy
University of New Mexico
MSC05 3400, 1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque
NM
87131 |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy
University of New Mexico
MSC05 3400, 1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque
NM
87131 |
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| Gabriel Ramon Sanchez | | sanchezg@unm.edu |
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