Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"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, we see what happens."

"This is an issue that would be unacceptable anywhere else, and yet somehow, some way in Indian Country it is just allowed to continue."

"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 are growing our own."

"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 you on that."