[LWVNM Action] Paid Family Medical Leave is health care and behavioral health-HB11 highlighted-
Richard Mason
dickmasonnm at gmail.com
Mon Jan 13 20:10:33 MST 2025
We can discuss it on the 22nd at the Action meeting
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM Meredith Machen via Action <
action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
> 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)
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> 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
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> 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)*
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> Meredith Machen
> meredith.machen at gmail.com
> 505 577-6337
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