Healthcare
Letter To The Editor: A Better Health Care Payment System
By TED TRUSKEAlbuquerque
It’s strange that a five second sound bite, “I will kill Obamacare” can drive national policies. Finally President Trump admits, “health care is complicated”. So GOP members contort themselves to make magic happen, so far unsuccessfully. They dispute the CBO’s numbers because they’re not happily magical.
Why doesn’t the public have whatever health plan Congress has? If it’s good enough for Congress we in the public could live with it.
In 2010 T.R. Reid wrote a best seller called “The Healing of America”, one would expect that members Read More
Luján On Postponed House Vote On Trumpcare
CONGRESSIONAL News:WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) issued the following statement after House Republicans delayed a high profile vote on the Republican health care repeal bill when the legislation failed to gain sufficient support to pass the House:
“President Trump and Congressional Republicans hatched a bill in a back room and tried to slip it through the House with no hearings before anyone – even members of their own party – were able to understand the details,” Lujan said. “And when those details did come out – the fact that this bill strips
Read More Letter To The Editor: Protest GOP Healthcare Bill
By CHARLES SMITHSanta Fe
The congressional Republican healthcare plan will be a disaster for working families. Their plan will take health care away from 24 million people across the country and impose painful taxes on working people.
Thank you. Read More
Letter To The Editor: LAMC Exceeds Expectations!
By MARCUS HALLLos Alamos
This is just a short public “thank you” to the Los Alamos Medical Center.
I am a single dad with an 8-year-old son. A short time ago I had to go the ER with severe stomach pains and was admitted overnight into the ICU for observation. My parents were out of the country. Friends picked my son up from school and took care of him that afternoon, but he had no familiar place to stay overnight.
The staff at LAMC set up a bed in my room in the ICU, arranged for his supper, and he was able to spend the night with me in my room. In the morning they arranged
Read More Just One Thing To Do This Week: Get Out
The fabulous fruit hat. Mary Beth Maasseen at the Red and Black Ball. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.comBy MARY BETH MAASSEN
Los Alamos
So, I wore a fruit hat.
It was made of artificial fruit and I was going for that Carmen Miranda look, and folks at the party were kind enough to humor me in that regard. I wore the fruit hat to the Family YMCA Red and Black Ball last Saturday night, so there are lots of witnesses and I can’t pretend it didn’t happen.
The theme for the event was “Havana Nights” and for some reason I thought, “Carmen Miranda!” Although as it turns out, Carmen was born in Portugal and was Read More
Raffle Benefits Hope Pregnancy Center’s Mobile Ultrasound Services
Sheraton Vistana Resort in Orlando, Fla. Courtesy photo
Staff Report
The winning ticket in a Hope Pregnancy Center raffle will get the lucky ticket holder a seven-night stay at the Sheraton Vistana Resort in Orlando, Fla., according to Interim Executive Director Deborah Goodwin.
Tickets are $10 each and only 400 are being sold for the April 19 raffle.
“The best part is that check-in is March 24, 2018, which is during the Los Alamos Schools spring break,” Goodwin said.
The condo raffle only includes living accommodations in a two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit that sleeps eight people, so the winner Read More
On The Job In Los Alamos: TriState Care-Flight Helicopter Pilot Charles Smith
TriState Care-Flight EMS helicopter pilot Charles Smith is on the job Monday at Los Alamos Medical Center were he is waiting to transport paramedics and a patient. A retired 19-year US Army veteran, Smith has worked as a relief pilot for TriState for more than two years covering all bases in New Mexico. He and his wife are permanent RVers here in New Mexico. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com
TriState Care-Flight EMS helicopter arrives Monday at Los Alamos Medical Center to pick up a patient. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com Read More
Heinrich Launches #KeepMeCovered Campaign
U.S. Sen. Martin HeinrichU.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) launched “Keep Me Covered,” a social media campaign calling for New Mexicans and people across the country to share a video or photo using the hashtag #KeepMeCovered to highlight what they stand to lose under President Trump and congressional Republicans’ health care plan.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported yesterday that the bill will cancel health care for 14 million people in just one year, with 24 million
Read More Letter To The Editor: In Support Of Our Teachers…
By ELENA E. GIORGI A concerned mother grateful for her children’s teachers
Dear Governor and dear Representatives who voted against the resolution that would’ve allowed teachers to take more than 3 sick days without penalty, let me ask you: how many times did you take a sick day this past year? How many times did you have to assist a sick family member, whether a child, a spouse, or an elderly parent? And all this when you hold a position that doesn’t keep you inside a classroom five days a week. Along with train stations and public places, schools are the primary route for the spread of infectious diseases Read More