First Nations Development Institute

Ask Your Senator to Include the Indian Health Care Improvement Act in the Current Senate Health Care Reform Bill

February 09, 2010

Subject:
Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 2009 (IHCIA of 2009), S. 1790.

Dear Senator

Indian Country needs your immediate support of and action on the reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 2009 (IHCIA of 2009), S. 1790. Native Americans suffer staggering health disparities due to an outdated, strained and underfunded health care system. We have a federal health care system for Native Americans that is only funded at about half of its need. Clinician vacancy rates within this system are high and misdiagnosis is rampant. Only those with ‘life or limb’ emergencies seem to get care. Native Americans die of tuberculosis at a rate 600 percent higher than the general population, suicide rates are nearly double, alcoholism rates are 510 percent higher, and diabetes rates are 189 percent higher than the general population.

Please help some of the United States most vulnerable people sustain better health for the future of the children of Indian Country.  Citizens of the United States deserve to have better health care conditions than are represented in Indian Country.


Sincerely,

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