HB400 requires a study of the “Medicaid Forward” plan, which would open Medicaid coverage to every resident, regardless of income.
The House passed HB400 on March 7, 2023, by a vote of 58 to 10. We have assigned pluses to the nays because neither health care nor social welfare is the legitimate object of government. Medicaid, like other so-called ‘entitlement programs,’ is financed in large part by immoral and anti-constitutional forms of taxation (e.g., personal or corporate income taxes) that take from citizens the wages they have rightfully earned. Instead of seeking ways to create and implement a completely government-run health care system in New Mexico, the Legislature should work to rein in big government, out-of-control spending, and the reckless use taxpayer money. Medicaid is an ever-expanding and unsustainable Federal-State program that is not authorized under Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution.