New Study Claims Health Care Costs for New Mexicans are Skyrocketing

By Evan Woodward

Las Cruces, NM – The Health Care for America Now Campaign along with New Mexico ACORN released a report earlier this week, claiming that consolidation in the private health insurance industry is creating higher premiums for patients and employers. As KRWG's Evan Woodward reports, the report indicates that in this decade health care premiums in New Mexico have risen at almost five times the rate of individual income.