Credit Peter Goodman Commentary: Many New Mexicans say it’s time for a New Mexico Health Security Plan. I agree. This Legislature should pass the Health Security Planning and Design legislation (HB203), to establish an approximately four-year, publicly accountable, transparent process to design that plan. Health Security is backed by a huge coalition of groups, including the Hispanic Farmers and Ranchers. Las Cruces, Anthony, and Doña Ana County support it. (There’s no real opposition except big insurance companies.) Three studies have concluded that creating our own health plan will be a great investment, through which we can confront problems of rising healthcare costs and a large uninsured population.