Dona Ana County Medical Society

03/14/2026

HAPPENING NOW! Join us to hear Steve Lanier’s plan to address healthcare access in New Mexico

Zoom link:
https://tinyurl.com/LanierForum

03/13/2026

Join us for an important conversation on the future of healthcare in New Mexico 🩺

The Doña Ana County Medical Society, Patients Primero, and Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine invite you to a Gubernatorial Candidate Forum featuring State Senator Steve Lanier. This forum will focus on plans to address healthcare access across New Mexico and the challenges facing patients, physicians, and communities across our state.

📅 Saturday, March 14, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

📍 Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
3501 Arrowhead Dr
Las Cruces, NM 88001

💻 Attend in person or join virtually:
https://tinyurl.com/LanierForum

We welcome students, healthcare professionals, and community members to be part of this important discussion about the future of healthcare in New Mexico.

03/12/2026

Our Gubernatorial Healthcare Town Hall series continues with Senator Steve Lanier this Saturday at 10 am at Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine. Please come and share our post!ll

02/18/2026

Thank you for everyone who’s worked so hard for this. We still have work to do but this is a huge step forward!

02/16/2026

Long one but it’s important. The fight for healthcare is gaining steam!

New Mexico House Bill 99 passed the house with overwhelming bipartisan support. That’s a huge win but we don’t want th ereform to die as a moral victory. Now, it’s on to the senate where the fight will be harder. And it’s going to happen fast. There are only a few days left in this year’s session and the opposition is fighting like hell to ensure they won’t lose ground in their litigious haven that New Mexico has become.

House Bill 99 is not perfect but it’s a big step. We must ensure that it keeps moving forward and that it isn’t further diluted by misinformed or mal-intentioned amendments by politicians who sue doctors during their day jobs or whose campaigns are largely funded by those trial attorneys.

Voices of support are coming from all New Mexicans, across party lines, who see that they are losing doctors and that their neighbors, especially the least economically privledged among them, struggle to access care. The vast majority of the loudest community voices opposing reform are intimately tied to “Safety Over Profit,” a group that was sued by the NM Ethics Commission for refusing to disclose donors. When forced to reveal them, the donors turned out to be trial lawyers and the NM Trial Lawyers Association.

Meanwhile according to a state sponsored survey:
- 65% of NM physicians are considering leaving the state
- 83% say malpractice laws are the main reason
- Punitive damages are claimed in 92% of NM malpractice cases
- NM has no cap on punitive damages and one of the lowest standards of proof

HB 99 can help the journey to restoring balance by capping punitive damages for all providers while still protecting small and mid-sized practices, amending occurrence definition, and reforming payouts of the patient compensation, designed to help patients with medical expenses after an injury.

Every doctor acknowledges wholeheartedly that patients have the right seek justice when they are victims of malpractice. But unlimited punitive exposure and a malpractice environment that is out of sync with surrounding states is driving your doctors out and shrinking an already abysmal state of access to care.

It’s time for real reform. We are all driving out the din of rhetorical misinformation with our desperation for a functional healthcare system.

Call your ALL your senators, especially those on the Senate Health Committee (https://www.nmlegis.gov/Committee/Standing_Committee?CommitteeCode=SHPAC) and Senate Judiciary Committee (https://www.nmlegis.gov/Committee/Standing_Committee?CommitteeCode=SJC) IMMEDIATELY to support HB 99 in its current form.

Also, Patients Primero is doing a great job of keeping the public up to date on these issues. Add your name to their list by sending them an email at patientsprimero@gmail.com.

02/15/2026

Great step forward in the quest to improve access to healthcare in New Mexico. Thank you!

Medical malpractice changes passes the house almost unanimously!! Great job everyone!!

02/09/2026

House Bill 99 will be heard in the house Judiciary Committee this afternoon TODAY. Please call in a voice support for this bill WITHOUT the unfriendly amendment. The committee is scheduled to start at 1:30 pm today but who knows when it will actually start. Go to this webpage and click on the link to listen in (the link says “Click here to join the Zoom meeting for HJC”): https://www.nmlegis.gov/Committee/Standing_Committee?CommitteeCode=HJC

The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up a high-profile bill Monday to change New Mexico’s medical malpractice law after the chairwoman tried Friday to tamp down divisive rhetoric

02/08/2026

Thanks to Greg Hull-Candidate for Governor of New Mexico for his presentation this morning at Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine and interest in keeping doctors in New Mexico

02/05/2026

A new survey sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and conducted by Dr. Gabe Sanchez of BSP Polling and the UNM Center for Social Policy found that 86% of New Mexico doctors often or sometimes consider leaving the state. Of those, most cite medical malpractice as their major reason. 💔💔

02/05/2026