[LWVNM Action] Paid Family Medical Leave is health care and behavioral health-HB11 highlighted-

[Meredith Machen]

Attached is a highlighted copy of HB 11 Paid Family Medical Leave-Chandler
showing that it most certainly fits into LWVNM's Health Care legislative
priority, covered by our Health Care position.
Health Care(Adopted 1991; revised 1993, 2005, 2007, 2017, 2019)

The League of Women Voters of New Mexico supports a health care system that
provides a comprehensive level of health care for New Mexico residents and
recognizes the need for efficient management of health care costs.

The League of Women Voters of New Mexico believes that public policy in a
pluralistic society must affirm the constitutional right of privacy of the
individual to make reproductive choices.

Every New Mexico resident should have a comprehensive level of health care.
The League favors a national health insurance plan, but until one is in
place, the League supports expansion of state and federal plans. (Revised
and adopted 2005.)

*LWVNM believes that any health system implemented should have the
following:*

   1. *Quality health coverage for all New Mexicans: Every New Mexican
   should have full health care coverage, a benefit package that is at least
   equal to the best plan offered to state employees, and access to the
   services covered.* *Participation should be mandatory. Pre-existing
   conditions should not be excluded from coverage.*
   2. *“Seamless” coverage and continuity of care, to the extent possible,
   regardless of changes in life circumstances such as change in employment,
   marital status, financial status, or health status.*
   3. Effective cost management: Cost management should increase the health
   care benefits that accrue to patients from any given level of spending.
   Cost and pricing data from private and government sources should be
   transparent.
   4. Improvement of health care quality and safety: A comprehensive effort
   to improve the quality and safety of health care in New Mexico should be
   launched and sustained, with dramatically increased public funding.
   5. Equitable funding: Reform should seek to reduce or eliminate
   cost-shifting across categories of insurance programs and payers, both
   public and private, and to make the distribution of financial burdens more
   equitable. Billing should be comprehensible and transparent.
   6. No one should be forced into poverty because of medical needs.
   (Adopted 2017.)
   7. Simplified administration: Reform should include the development of
   standardized forms, minimization of complicated co-pays/deductibles, and
   assurances of timely payment to providers. (Adopted 2007.)

Death with Dignity(Adopted 2017)

The League of Women Voters of New Mexico:

   1. believes state laws should grant the option for terminally ill people
   to request medical assistance from a licensed physician to end their lives;
   2. believes such legislation should provide safeguards against abuse for
   the dying and/or medical personnel.

Mental Health(Adopted 2013)

The League of Women Voters of New Mexico (LWVNM) expects state and local
governments to support an adequately funded mental health care system that
provides comprehensive services to the acutely, chronically and seriously
mentally ill of all ages; maintains optimal mental health services for all
clients; places emphasis on meeting the needs of children; offers mental
health services for the homeless; seeks additional funds for preventive
services; implements a master plan to integrate services; raises awareness
of critical unmet needs; and emphasizes case management.

LWVNM specifically supports

   1. Adequately funded mental health care systems that
      1. provide comprehensive services to the acutely, chronically and
      seriously mentally ill of all ages;
      2. place emphasis on meeting the needs of children;
      3. seek additional funds to provide preventive services;
      4. offer mental health services for the homeless;
      5. maintain optimum mental health services for all clients.
   2. Implementation of a master plan that
      1. ensures that there will be a network of integrated services,
      clearly defined and consistent with a community support model;
      2. *advocates an awareness of and concern about the critical unmet
      needs;*
      3. emphasizes case management that includes assistance with housing,
      financial entitlements, rehabilitative and vocational programs.
   3. Centers for the seriously and chronically mentally ill apart from the
   county system.
   4. Regulations that provide an adequate length of time for evaluation
   and treatment of involuntary holds.
   5. Model mandatory outpatient care programs with adequate supervisory
   staff.

Reproductive Health(Adopted 2019)

The League of Women Voters of New Mexico supports every woman’s right to
access affordable, high-quality reproductive health care, including access
to abortion services and birth control.

LWVNM supports:

   - reproductive rights — including access to abortion — as a health care
   issue decided by a woman and her health care provider
   - birth control as well as access to publicly funded family planning
   services.

LWVNM opposes:

   - statutory and regulatory restrictions on birth control and/or abortion.

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*U.S. Department of Labor has further clarified definitions through
regulation:• Inpatient care is defined as an overnight stay in a hospital,
hospice, or residential medical carefacility, including any period of
incapacity or any subsequent treatment in connection with suchinpatient
care.• Continuing treatment is defined as a period of incapacity of more
than three consecutive calendardays and any subsequent treatment of
incapacity relating to the same condition than involveso Treatment two or
more times by a health care provider; or,o Treatment by a health care
provider on at least one occasion which results in a regimen ofcontinuing
treatmento Any period of incapacity due to pregnancy or for prenatal careo
Any period of incapacity or treatment for incapacity due to a chronic
serious health conditiono A period of incapacity which is permanent or
long-term due to a condition for which treatment maynot be effective (e.g.,
Alzheimer's, terminal stages of a disease)*

Meredith Machen
meredith.machen at gmail.com
505 577-6337
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