Last year, through the yeoman efforts of you, Chairman Dorgan, and Senator Murkowski, a reauthorization bill was finally debated and approve...
Last year, through your yeoman efforts, Chairman Dorgan, and our Alaska Senator Murkowski, a reauthorization was finally debated and approve...
I am enormously pleased that he will now fulfill the role that Senator Murkowski filled in the last Congress.
I think the advice a couple of you have given us today of not reintroducing the same bill, is good advice.
I would like to thank Senator Dorgan, Senator Murkowski, and indeed the entire Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for all of their hard work...
We are not discouraged. In fact, we have great hope that our long struggle will bear fruit in the 111th Congress.
It is critically important that reforming and improving the health care system for American Indians remains a high priority.
I hope that in the new Congress, that we can move forward on the critical issues facing the Indian health care system.
The NIHB urgently requests that Congress finish work on an IHCIA bill within the next 90 days.
I don't need to tell anyone in this room that the current system is broken.
I hope at the end of that journey, we all will have felt we have done something that advances Indian health care in this Country.
The question of eligibility is obviously important.
We desperately need the new authorities offered by the Indian Health Care Improvement legislation.
I think it would make sense to me if I and Senator Barrasso and others members of this Committee, working with all of you, can try to evalua...
Congress has repeatedly stated that the trust responsibility to provide health care extends to American Indians regardless of where they res...
We have a responsibility to ensure that the health care needs of Native Americans are met.
I remain optimistic that this Committee will continue to work in a bi-partisan fashion to address the health care needs of our First America...
We have a crisis in Indian health care. We need to address it and fix it.
