I called the New Mexico health insurance exchange today to find out how much my self-employed insurance premium will be going up once the ACA credits disappear in a couple of days.

Turns out New Mexico, under our progressive Latina governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, is making up the credits. My health insurance is actually going DOWN next year.

We also have free childcare, free college, free school meals and, in Albuquerque, free public transportation and free animal adoptions. Bilingualism is written into our state constitution, as is reproductive freedom. Our state question is “Green or red?” And it pertains to chile, which we spell with an e.

Sunset near home.

UPDATE: So many of you have asked me “How can NM afford that?” that I wrote a post to answer. Here’s the link.