Socialism Without Borders

Socialism Without Borders
 
Little Luna County, New Mexico, among the top three--if not the--poorest county in the nation, is creating a cross-Mexican border health care program.  The program is now in the planning stage.  Don Brickner of the Deming Headlight staff covered the story locally.  He characterizes the program as "binational, "  saying
"The new health plan will be the first binational health plan in the region, said Kathryn Ritterbusch, community liaison with Border Area Mental Health Services in Deming, and co-president of the newly formed Columbus-Luna County-Palomas Binational Health Council."
The social bodies involved so far include the Columbus-Luna County-Palomas Binational Health Council, the Luna County Health Council in Deming,  and the Chihuahua State Health Services in Mexico. supplementing, it is said, the Luna County Health Council Comprehensive Community Health Improvement Plan.

The key to the reported plan is to provide for local health care responders and providers to go to the Palomas, Mexico area to give treatment for the seriously ill or injured.  It is said that this is better than driving the patients 100-miles to El Paso, Texas.

This poor little County, Democrat since the first election of FDR in 1932, is said in the Headlight article to have 25 people representing varying local healthcare services.   Instead of porking all these providers and responders and administrators forever, perhaps it would be cheaper, more efficient, and providing better care, if Luna simply gave Palomas a rescue helicopter to evacuate patients to the nearby-by-air of the big city: Juarez, New Mexico, across from the West Texas town of El Paso.

Palomas, Mexico, is where drug dealers not long ago shot-up the police station, prompting the police to flee to the U.S. side.

AFTERTHOUGHT: At this time there are no known plans for local politicians or activists to raise up a statue in honor of FDR.