Authors: Geoffrey Roth

Publication Year: 2009

Last Updated: 2010-10-05 14:46:49

Journal: NCUIH

Keywords: Testimony, IHCIA, NCAI, NCUIH, NIHB, Committee on Natural Resources, Amendments, Pallone

Short Abstract:

On behalf of the National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH), our 36 member clinics, and the 150,000 American Indian/Alaska Native patients that we serve annually, I would like to thank the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for this opportunity to testify on the impact of national health care reform on Urban Indians. We thank Representative Pallone for reaching out to Indian people and asking for our recommendations. NCUIH strongly supports both the joint recommendations drafted together with the National Indian Health Board and the National Congress of American Indians and the joint recommended amendments to the draft discussion bill for health care reform. All of our organizations believe that these recommendations are the very minimum of what must be included in health care reform. The National Council of Urban Indian Health also strongly encourages this Committee to work with the House Committee on Natural Resources to pass the Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2009 recently introduced by Representative Pallone.

Three core principles must be met for any health reform legislation:

1. Exclusion of penalties and mandates for Indian people and tribal governments;
2. Eligibility of subsidies for Indian people; and
3. Portability of care

Abstract:

On behalf of the National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH), our 36 member clinics, and the 150,000 American Indian/Alaska Native patients that we serve annually, I would like to thank the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for this opportunity to testify on the impact of national health care reform on Urban Indians. We thank Representative Pallone for reaching out to Indian people and asking for our recommendations. NCUIH strongly supports both the joint recommendations drafted together with the National Indian Health Board and the National Congress of American Indians and the joint recommended amendments to the draft discussion bill for health care reform. All of our organizations believe that these recommendations are the very minimum of what must be included in health care reform. The National Council of Urban Indian Health also strongly encourages this Committee to work with the House Committee on Natural Resources to pass the Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2009 recently introduced by Representative Pallone.

Three core principles must be met for any health reform legislation:

1. Exclusion of penalties and mandates for Indian people and tribal governments;
2. Eligibility of subsidies for Indian people; and
3. Portability of care

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