Health Care & Wellness
New Mexico has a severe health care shortage. From increasing the number of health care providers to reducing the costs of prescription medication, I am committed to improving health care access and affordability for New Mexico families.
One of my early votes in Congress was to pass the Affordable Care Act, which increased access to everything from maternity care to lifesaving treatment for diseases like diabetes, cancer, and substance addiction. More recently, I helped pass historic investments in mental health care as part of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and expanded protections for affordable health care coverage in the Inflation Reduction Act, which lowered premium costs even further, capped the costs of prescription drugs like insulin, and empowered Medicare Part D to negotiate directly with drug companies to lower prices for seniors.
As Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees the Food and Drug Administration, I am also focused on ensuring Americans have access to safe medications – from cancer- and Alzheimer-treatments to contraceptives and abortion medication to addiction treatment and overdosereversal medication.
Latest News
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WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined in a bipartisan, bicameral letter urging House Speaker Mike Johnson to immediately act to pass the Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act (RECA). This legislation would reauthorize and strengthen the RECA program which was approved by the Senate with strong bipartisan...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Founder and Co-Chair of the Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus, announced that he is cosponsoring the Kids Online Safety Act, bipartisan legislation to provide kids and parents with better tools to protect themselves online, hold Big Tech accountable, and provide transparency into black box...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), and 9 colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) urging the administration to renew its efforts to increase cervical cancer screening rates.
