Somehow, that suggests to me somebody's not thinking in this process.
There is now a requirement for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a plan by which Nevada would become...
But let me ask you: If I might go to the 39-year-old mother of five--are you familiar with this case?
So that's seven months out of the year, and then the next five months there's no money.
Everybody's always worried about rationing: It's going on in this country, every single day to American Indians.
Even if those who believe this should be repealed--and I don't; that would be a profound mistake to repeal that law--eve...
If there were a repeal of the health care bill that was passed by the Congress, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act w...
We asked for a Government Accountability Office to conduct an investigation into the Contract Health Service program.
I'm enormously proud that we were able to do that.
It's denied.
What I don't understand is the criteria by which someone says: We're going to allocate this based on a criteria that see...
I expect we'll hear from Catherine Harris, as well. I think a lot of policy-makers would be very surprised to hear much ...
To me, it's almost a replication of genocide.
We just have to get it fixed.
I asked Senator Reid for time to get to the Floor to deal with this Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
I was able to get $2.5 billion in the Economic Recovery Act, with Senator Reid's help, specifically for Indian Country.
This almost seems to me like it would be impossible for someone to make that judgment.
My understanding is that $6.7 million that is owed to providers here in this region has grown to nearly $10 million.