I think there are a lot of very wonderful people working for the Indian Health Service.
Contract Health Services is inadequately funded by virtue of not having sufficient money in the budget.
This ought to be a national scandal.
There should be front page headlines in newspapers about the rationing of health care to American Indians.
We're enormously proud of that legislation, as well.
It's pretty clear that if you are a Native American, one of the First Americans who welcomed everyone who showed up later.
Even if that were not the case, there are other problems that I think lead all of us to understand this system doesn't work very well.
If you admit this woman to your hospital, you're doing that at your own risk because we are out of contract health care money.
This is about real people; this is kids dying; it's elders dying; it's about real people.
That, in my judgment is shameful.
Don't get sick after June, because by June we're out of contract health care money.
This must be fixed.
We cannot allow that to continue.
I brought a big picture of Ardel Hale Baker to the Floor of the Senate to say here's the woman on whose leg they masked-taped an eight-by-te...
I know that there is substantial use of contract health funds here in this area of Nevada.
Be nice to the witnesses from Nevada.
It is NOT the way Senator Reid developed his Nevada public lands bills.
We again strongly urge you to vote to support SB 3313
