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.
There should be front page headlines in newspapers about the rationing of health care to American Indians.
This ought to be a national scandal.
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.
Don't get sick after June, because by June we're out of contract health care money.
I know that there is substantial use of contract health funds here in this area of Nevada.
That, in my judgment is shameful.
This must be fixed.
This is about real people; this is kids dying; it's elders dying; it's about real people.
We're enormously proud of that legislation, as well.