Oldtimer said:
CattleArmy said:
The people I know that utilize the pine ridge health care system are all the time telling how wonderful it is to get free health care.
I am providing for my own well being it's the reason I have the job in town. I just think it's time that every American has health care.
I have to agree cattlearmy-- as far as our Rez here....They not only have the two reservation hospitals and clinics, but they contract with Glasgow and Williston to provide any services they can't provide-- and if those can't handle it - Billings...
My wife has had 100's of patients that are IHS...
Like this OT?
http://www.kotaradio.com/NEWS/story.asp?id=4555
Dorgan calls Indian health services scandalous
8/17/2007 7
CROW AGENCY, Mont. (AP) - Senator Byron Dorgan says Indian
health services in the U.S. are scandalous. He says care is often
denied, unless life or limb is threatened.
The North Dakota Democrat chairs the Senate Indian Affairs
Committee, which held a hearing yesterday on Montana's Crow Indian
Reservation.
Witnesses testified of cancer victims who could not get a
diagnosis until it was too late for treatment; yearlong waits for
surgeries; and trauma victims turned away from tribal clinics not
equipped to handle their problems.
The committee also heard from officials of the Indian Health
Service. They said they make funding go as far as they can -- but
the budget regularly runs out halfway through the year. Pete Conway
is Billings area director of the Indian Health Service. He says
members of some tribes in the Dakotas get only 40 percent of the
health care funding they need.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)