Authors: National Indian Health Board

Publication Year: 2009

Last Updated: 2010-08-30 15:05:59

Journal: National Indian Health Board

Keywords: NIHB, National indian health board, IHCIA, indian health care improvement act, Affordable Health Care for America Act, H.R.3962, H.R.2708, HCR, health care reform

Short Abstract:

On behalf of the National Indian Health Board and, we are writing to ask for your support of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Specifically, we ask that you support the inclusion of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA) as part of H.R. 3962. This version of the IHCIA in H.R. 3962 is exactly the same as the IHCIA reauthorization in H.R. 2708, which has broad support throughout Indian Country.

Abstract:

On behalf of the National Indian Health Board and, we are writing to ask for your support of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Specifically, we ask that you support the inclusion of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA) as part of H.R. 3962. This version of the IHCIA in H.R. 3962 is exactly the same as the IHCIA reauthorization in H.R. 2708, which has broad support throughout Indian Country.

The IHCIA is the baseline for all health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Since 1992, when the IHCIA was last overhauled, the American health care system has been revolutionized, but the Indian health care system has not been. Including IHCIA in H.R. 3962 will modernize the Indian health care system at the same time as Congress is reforming health care for all Americans. It also honors the trust responsibility incumbent upon the United States to provide health care to tribes and its tribal members.

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