By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog
SANTA FE — At least 63,900 people in New Mexico have been notified they’re going to have to change their individual health care policies — some must do it within a matter of months while others can wait until end of next year — according to a review by [...]

By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog
SANTA FE – Eight attempts, eight incompletions.
That’s not a statistical line for a struggling quarterback but rather the number of times New Mexico Watchdog has tried without success to log onto healthcare.gov since the Affordable Care Act was rolled out Oct. 1.
Sunday night and Monday morning, NM Watchdog tried [...]

By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog
SANTA FE – Both U.S. senators from New Mexico have joined a group of 10 Democratic colleagues in calling for an extension for people seeking health-care coverage on the troubled www.healthcare.gov website.
Sen. Tom Udall and Sen. Martin Heinrich co-signed a letter sent Friday to Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department [...]

In the end, the most amazing thing about the entire partial government shutdown/debt ceiling crisis screamfest and garden party is that there’s still a can left to kick down the road.
You’d think there would only be a few shards of tin remaining, given that after all the melodrama the members on Capitol Hill still haven’t [...]

By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog
SANTA FE — The advertising blitz from the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange aimed at individuals looking to sign up for policies under the Affordable Care Act is on hold due to technical problems with the federal government’s website.
“We’re holding back on paid media until we know when the glitches at [...]

By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog
SANTA FE – The New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange appears to have had a smooth roll-out, signing up small businesses and their employees as part of the Affordable Care Act.
But, as reported on New Mexico Watchdog, thousands of people in the state looking for information on individual policies have [...]

By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog
SANTA FE – After 10 days and with thousands of New Mexicans unable to log onto the federal website, state insurance officials have posted a static page, allowing people to at least get an idea about what Affordable Care Act options are available.
“For example, we’re putting up the rates [...]

By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog
SANTA FE — The potential success of the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange that rolled out Tuesday is largely predicated on whether a significant number of young adults sign up.
But it’s an open question whether enough of them, which health care workers call “the young invincibles,” will take the [...]

By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog
The U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are divided, and so is the New Mexico delegation on Capitol Hill.
The federal government shut down just after midnight Monday, and it didn’t take long for the Democrats and Republicans to start blaming one another.
“I had hoped that a shutdown [...]

By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog
“Saturday Night Live” may not have the bite it used to have back in the John Belushi days, but it did open its show this weekend with a spoof on the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
In the skit, President Obama — as modern politicians are wont to do [...]