[LWVNM Action] Paid Family Medical Leave is health care and behavioral health-HB11 highlighted-
Meredith Machen
meredith.machen at gmail.com
Tue Jan 14 15:01:24 MST 2025
https://www.lwv.org/health-care-reform/league-joins-letter-support-paid-family-leave
LWV has vigorously fought for paid family medical leave since 2017 just as
it fought for health care insurance for all.
Insurance is part of healthcare. The link mentions lots of states that had
implemented PFML by 2017. LWVMD is one of several states that successfully
advocated for PFML, and the NM plan is modeled closely after the states
that have implemented it.
Meredith Ross Machen
505-577-6337
Meredith.machen at gmail.com
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM Judy Williams <jkwilliams24 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> One is a leave policy; the other is health insurance and related coverage
> of care. Judy
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM Meredith Machen via Action <
> action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>> 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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