Authors: National Council of Urban Indian Health

Publication Year: 2017

Last Updated: 2018-02-01

Journal: NCUIH

Keywords: NCUIH, ACA, Affordable Care Act, Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson, I/T/U, Indian healthcare

Abstract:

On behalf of the National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH), which represents over forty urban Indian health programs (UIHPs) across the nation, I urge you not to support the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson measure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) until the measure is reformed to ensure it is consistent with the federal government’s Trust Responsibility to provide American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people with health care. This obligation has been reaffirmed, repeatedly, by all three branches of the federal government, one which cannot be passed on to the states, and one which follows AI/AN people off of reservations and into urban areas.

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