National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) Response to Senate Committee of Indian Affairs concept paper 07-20-09
Authors: NCUIH
Publication Year: 2009
Last Updated: 2016-04-21 16:08:46
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Keywords: IHCIA, ACA, NCUIH, NIHB, SCIA, NCAI, H.R.2708, senate committee on indian affairs, affordable care act, indian health care improvement act, national congress of american indians, national indian health board
Short Abstract:
The National Council of Urban Indian Health thanks the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for seeking the views and suggestion from all of Indian Country on the redrafting of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. Some have referred to the Indian health delivery system has broken, but it would be better to refer to the system as starved. Many of the vital elements of health delivery in Indian Country are unable to function properly due to either significant lack of resources or the inability to utilize those resources in ways that modern health care require. Health care reform can only go so far in moving Indian health care forward without the necessary increases in funding to support the programs and opportunities contained in H.R. 2708 and the Committees concept paper. That said this concept paper presents the desperately needed modernizations to the Indian health system.
Abstract:
The National Council of Urban Indian Health thanks the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for seeking the views and suggestion from all of Indian Country on the redrafting of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. Some have referred to the Indian health delivery system has broken, but it would be better to refer to the system as starved. Many of the vital elements of health delivery in Indian Country are unable to function properly due to either significant lack of resources or the inability to utilize those resources in ways that modern health care require. Health care reform can only go so far in moving Indian health care forward without the necessary increases in funding to support the programs and opportunities contained in H.R. 2708 and the Committees concept paper. That said this concept paper presents the desperately needed modernizations to the Indian health system.
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