New Mexico governor on healthcare and deploying the National Guard

(CBS, KYMA/KECY) - Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) spoke with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation Sunday about connecting Americans to healthcare.

Brennan asked Governor Grisham if she figured out how to implement everything Dr. Mehmet Oz laid out, and the governor said:

"Absolutely not. There is no real way to implement this. It's more paperwork for everyone. It's more paperwork for federal government, for state governments, for county governments, for local hospitals, for independent providers. And you know what Americans really hate? When you go to your primary care physician and you spend 20 minutes sitting at a chair, not even on the exam table, while they are inputting data into a computer. So this doesn't make any sense."

Grisham added, "We should be a society and a country that is connecting people to healthcare providers."

During the interview, Brennan and Grisham talked about the latter deploying the National Guard to New Mexico, and why that was different from President Donald Trump deploying the National Guard to California.

According to Brennan, Grisham deployed the National Guard to counter unrest in the state.

"They're not policing. They're doing the back end work so that trained community policing, and members of that training, right...those local police officers, they're on the streets. What we have in this country is a shortage of police officers. What I have in New Mexico is a partnership. So they're doing all of the- they answer all of the emergency calls. They handle all the traffic clearance when we've got a crash. And it is working, we're beginning to see more productive fentanyl drug dealing high end arrests than we did without the guard. And I'm really proud of that work. This is about partnering and leveraging, not about indiscriminately going after individuals who have not committed serious crimes."

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM)

To watch more of Brennan's interview with Grisham, click here.