I will pay for the following article The current New Mexico Medicaid and the New Mexico Medicaid Modernization. The work is to be 10 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a refe

I will pay for the following article The current New Mexico Medicaid and the New Mexico Medicaid Modernization. The work is to be 10 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. Welfare services in New Mexico has been one of the poorest in the United States, reflecting the overall dismal situation of the state, which has been plagued by high rates of poverty, unemployment and a number of social ills such as alcohol and drug use in addition to the high incidence of suicides. During the 1990s, about twenty percent of the 1.8 million residents received Medicaid (Castro and Singer 2004). This is significantly lower than the national coverage. The state policy network has attempted to reform the healthcare situation in New Mexico beginning in 1994. The ensuing development reflected a positive transformation that featured numerous strategies and programs that helped to effectively expand health coverage and the development of successful health initiatives.

Medicaid Modernization Development

There are three significant stages in the current Medicaid/health policy in New Mexico. Such stages collectively represent the roadmap by which Medicaid has operated in the state. Castro and Singer have explained this in detail. The first of these was during the time that Bruce King served as governor of the state. He pursued a “carve-out” strategy in managing care and dispensing healthcare services. In his approach, the mental health services were funded and administered separately from the physical health portion of a non-profit Medicaid program. The objective was for the state to save on costs and expenditures that supposedly taxed citizens too much. This direction was rejected by the Republican administration that succeeded King’s term.