Article: WHAT VOTERS WANT HEALTH CARE: MORE OPTIONS, CHEAPER COVERAGE ON THE MINDS OF MANY NEW MEXICANS.(Main)

Byline: SUE VORENBERG

A professional house cleaner in Santa Fe, Loana Hoylman makes about $15,000 a year.

That's not much to live on in the City Different. It's also not enough to pay for any sort of health insurance, even though she still makes too much money to be covered by Medicaid.

And yet, with no cable, no cell phone, no Internet, no DVD player and, often, no food, the 62-year-old is still on the hook for $30,000 worth of hospital and doctor bills from a kidney stone infection she got about two years ago.

Beyond that, Hoylman has two teeth that desperately require root canals, but that's also a luxury she can't afford.

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