On the recordMarch 8, 2016
It's absolutely intolerable for any IHS emergency facility to close for any amount of time, and cutbacks to essential services like obstetrics are also unacceptable.
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congress.govIt's absolutely intolerable for any IHS emergency facility to close for any amount of time, and cutbacks to essential services like obstetrics are also unacceptable.
Udall emphasizes the critical need for continuous emergency services in IHS facilities.
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I think you are talking about a really meaningful step and meaningful engagement with the tribe for the provider to try to really understand what is going on on the ground.
I do believe that there is, to create a mechanism within the FCC, so that the data, as it comes and can be analyzed by the FCC, to create sort of a map of issues on a tribe-by-tribe, region-by-region basis.
We have heard today about the GAO's second report on partnerships and how less than 1 percent of the FCC's funding has gone to tribes.