Updated: NM Gov. requests lawmakers reconsider medical compacts for special session

Updated: NM Gov. requests lawmakers reconsider medical compacts for special session

A New Mexico think tank called on lawmakers and the executive to have New Mexico join compacts with other states to increase medical workers in order to better qualify for a new federal fund for rural hospitals. (Photo via Getty Images)Policy group Think New Mexico said Friday the state could lose out on millions of federal dollars for rural hospitals if Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state lawmakers don’t agree to put medical health care worke…