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LISTEN: Study Explores Impact Of Obamacare On Health Equity

Lisa Cacari Stone

  Our guest will be Lisa Cacari Stone, Assistant Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy and an Associate Professor in the College of Population Health at the UNM Health Sciences Center.

Stone was the lead researcher on a new studyexamining the impact of the Affordable Care Act on health equity in New Mexico.

The study was released by the Con Alma Health Foundation, which convened health leaders and advocates to discuss the ACA. The future of the health reform initiative is now uncertain given a pledge by President Elect Donald Trump to repeal and replace it.

 

Megan has been a journalist for 25 years and worked at business weeklies in San Antonio, New Orleans and Albuquerque. She first came to KUNM as a phone volunteer on the pledge drive in 2005. That led to volunteering on Women’s Focus, Weekend Edition and the Global Music Show. She was then hired as Morning Edition host in 2015, then the All Things Considered host in 2018. Megan was hired as News Director in 2021.