This is rationing in action. This is one of our government-run health care plans, and when you don't fully fund it, as we do not within IHS,...
This is an issue that would be unacceptable anywhere else, and yet somehow, some way in Indian Country it is just allowed to continue.
Now I also understand that domestic supply does not necessarily mean domestic supplier.
I would hope that you would take a very critical look and review as to what the chronic under-funding has been.
It is our ability to get them into these villages on a more than once a year for one week or two week basis.
We must address the chronic underfunding of contract health services.
I appreciate your leadership on this issue and your leadership as the CEO of the Alaska Native Health Board.
I think one of the things that we have recognized, particularly with children, is that if it is somebody that is in your village, someone th...
To know that, well, if you get sick after June when those Contract Health funds have run out, you are out of luck.
I appreciate you bringing that up because I think one of the things that we have recognized, particularly with children, is that if it is so...
Can you let me ask one quick question of Dr. Tankersley?
The reliability issue, of course, is key. When we talk about secure energy supplies, we know that, today we may be getting oil from Venezuel...
we are not favoring reactors over accelerators or other neutron-capture technology.
So what we are doing is we are not sending people out to a dental school in Oklahoma or Minnesota, and hoping that they come back home. We a...
I truly believe that there has been a greatly stepped up effort to get more dentists out into all aspects of rural America, and I applaud yo...
I would be curious to know what that is.
Can you define when you say it is meeting with success? How far along are you in the process?
we are growing our own DHAT graduates who return to their community, high level of commitment to serve.
