U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) on Thursday visited Albuquerque to tout roughly $11 million in funding her office has secured for an array of healthcare programs, including cancer research, mobile crisis centers and a sobering center.
All of those programs, Stansbury said at a news conference at the University of New Mexico’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, complement a burgeoning proposal at the Roundhouse this upcoming session: universal healthcare.
The $11 million the congresswoman secured through congressional earmarks “is coupled with the work that New Mexico is doing…to hopefully one day be able to deliver universal healthcare to all New Mexicans,” Stansbury said. “And what I can say is, New Mexico is truly on the front lines in delivering healthcare.”…