Authors: Forquera, Ralph, Seattle Indian Health Board

Publication Year: 2007

Last Updated: 2010-10-05

Journal: Seattle Indian Health Board

Keywords: Testimony, energy and commerce, United States House of Representatives, IHCIA, Indian Health Care Improvement Act

Abstract:

Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee on Health to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, thank you for inviting me to testify regarding H.R. 1328, a bill to reauthorize and extend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. My name is Ralph Forquera. I am the Executive Director for the Seattle Indian Health Board, one of 34 private, non-profit organizations that contract with the Indian Health Service under Title V of the Act we are discussing. I am an enrolled member of the Juaneo Band of California Mission Indians, a state-recognized Indian tribe from the San Juan Capistrano region of Southern California.