Authors: National Council of Urban Indian Health

Publication Year: 2017

Last Updated: 2018-02-01

Journal: NCUIH

Keywords: NCUIH, National Council of Urban Indian Health, SDPI, Special Diabetes Program for Indians, Senate, committee, Chairman Alexander, Ranking Member Murray, American Indian/Alaska Native, AI/AN 

Abstract:

Dear Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray:

On behalf of the National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH), which represents over forty urban Indian health care programs (UIHPs) across the nation which provide high-quality, culturally competent care to urban Indians, who constitute more than 70% of the nation’s American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people, I urge the Health, Education, Workforce, and Pensions (HELP) Committee to expeditiously mark up and promote passage of legislation to reauthorize the Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI)--particularly S. 747, a bill introduced by Senator Tom Udall (D-NM), which would extend the program for 7 years through 2024, at no increase in cost other than taking into account health care inflation.

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