So you are talking--just to begin with, you are saying the Affordable Care Act needs to be reformed----
99 percent of all the revenue coming into the Federal Government... is going to go back out in two categories: interest on the Federal debt ...
Madam Chair, my time is up, but it looks to me like what you are giving us is a wake up call about a crisis that is not 10 years from now; i...
Would it be fair to say they need to be managed?
The IHS needs major reform.
The legislation proposed by Chairman Barrasso and Senator John Thune, S. 2953 'The Indian Health Service Accountability Act of 2016', is att...
The audit that Senator Thune has been discussing is essential to that being possible.
This requires systemic change. You can't fix this by changing the oil and replacing the tires. We need a whole new car.
$80 million. $80 million, Mr. Chairman, that went for litigation that was taken from patient care in the Great Plains Area.
Work with us on getting that coordinated.
We do not need IHS to define what that bill means to the tribes. Tribes need to define to them.
There's got to be a way in which we can create a mechanism formalized so that consultation can take place.
More taxpayer money won't solve the dysfunction because what IHS lacks is an efficient system and accountability.
Thune to seek restoration of funding for a FULL FLEDGED EMERGENCY ROOM AT THE WAGNER UNIT, TO PREVENT FURTHER UNTIMELY DEATHS.
I think my legislation deals in changing the contracting process, which I think needs to happen.
I'd much rather see Avera, Sanford, Rapid City Regional Health in these hospitals than AB Staffing solutions.
We found that the agency is devoid of transparency and openness.
The services provided by the Indian Health Service as malpractice, and I stand by those words.
