SocraticGadfly: How could healthcare reform affect Native Americans

August 26, 2009

How could healthcare reform affect Native Americans

Over at High Country News, Mark Trahant, former editorial page editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and an enrolled member of the Shoshone-Bannock tribe, says, inside Congress and the Obama Administration, nobody’s really discussing that, namely, how this could affect the Indian Health Service, the federal governments treaty obligation to many tribes as “nations,” and more.

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