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Native Americans hope for the best from healthcare reform14 comments

eideard wrote 3 weeks ago: Republican Health Care Plan The meeting last month was a watershed: the leaders of 564 American Indi … more →

Tags: Politics, health, Crime, Native Americans, First Nation, health-care reform, IHS, public health hospitals

Federal Court Dismisses Tort Claim against US and Remands to State Court

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 3 months ago: The opinion in this matter is here: Loza v Native American Air Ambulance An excerpt: On January 29, … more →

Tags: Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, sovereign immunity, District of Arizona, Loza v. Native American Air Ambulance, Parker Indian Hospital

Emotionally Potent Oversimplification of the Day: Terry Anderson on the Indian Health Service4 comments

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 4 months ago: Thanks to Rick Collins for sending this around — Terry Anderson WSJ Op-Ed on Indian Health Ser … more →

Tags: Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Terry Anderson, Property Rights

"Queasy" arguments aimed at gutting health care for Native Americans

Jay Stevens wrote 4 months ago: by Jay Stevens You won’t believe the latest from Bozeman’s PERC. Un-frickin’-belie … more →

Tags: Healthcare, Native Americans

Henry Louis Gehrig, eMRs and Healthcare Reform 1 comment

Editors wrote 4 months ago: What’s the “Iron Horse” Got to Do with Health IT? By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™ [Publisher … more →

Tags: Op-Editorials, Information Technology, Healh Law Policy, Military medicine, Breaking News, ethics, Touring with Marcinko, ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Is government run health care for you?1 comment

tenentfarmer wrote 4 months ago: Glenn Beck with Fox News did a story on government run health care. He used the Indian Health Servic … more →

Tags: 1, Fox News, glenn beck, Health Care, VA Hospital, Veterans Adminatration

Understand the right way to reform health care... with short podcasts!10 comments

Wintery Knight wrote 5 months ago: CBO says that the total cost of Obamacare is 1.3 trillion over 10 years Source: The Heritage Foundat … more →

Tags: Podcasts, Government, Health Care, Fascism, Socialism, Canada, Cato Institute, Single Payer, communism

Think it through...4 comments

Steve wrote 6 months ago: Commonwealth Care, the grand experiment in Mandated Health Care administered by the  Commonwealth of … more →

Tags: Congress, Healthcare, Health Care, Massachusetts, Single Payer, Healthcare Reform, va, Veterans Administration, Reservation

United Keetoowah Claim against IHS Dismissed on Rule 19 Grounds

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 7 months ago: Here are the materials over this dispute where the IHS transferred an Indian health facility to the … more →

Tags: Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, sovereign immunity, Cherokee Nation, Rule 19, Eastern District of Oklahoma, ited Keetoowah Band v. Kempthorne

Quinn v. Leavitt -- Gender Discrimination Claim against IHS

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 1 year ago: In Quinn v. Leavitt, the District of South Dakota found in favor of the IHS in a sex discrimination … more →

Tags: Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, District of South Dakota, Quinn v. Leavitt, sex discrimination

Indian Health Emergency Declared

Tiernan O Faolain wrote 1 year ago: …by the Portland, Oregon, area Indian Health Board, due to rising gasoline costs and the dista … more →

Tags: Health Care, Native Americans, IHS, oil prices, Gas prices, Peak Oil, Disasters, State of Emergency, Portland

Biden "mis-Leads" During Interview, Routinely Supports Tax-payer Funded Abortions

count us out wrote 1 year ago: Joe Biden repeatedly made the claim in a Sunday interview on the NBC political show “Meet the … more →

Tags: NObama Coalition, PUMA: Party Unity My Ass, ClintonSupportersForMcCain, No Bamboozling Allowed, Count Us Out Mission Statement, Barack Obama Can Kiss My Ass, I Own My Vote, PUMA NObama Network, oPUMA

Federal Grant: Women's Health Demonstration Cooperative Agreement Program - Indian Health Service

sharecentral wrote 1 year ago: Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service Division of Nursing, Women’s Hea … more →

Tags: Domestic Violence, sexual assault, rural violence, Health Resources, Federal Grants

Southern Ute v. Leavitt Materials

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 1 year ago: Southern Ute Tribe, with NCAI as amicus, is appealing a district court order allowing the IHS to set … more →

Tags: Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Tenth Circuit, Indian Self-Determination Act, Southern Ute Tribe v. Leavitt, national congress of american indians

2008 Federally Recognized Tribes List

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 1 year ago: The 2008 list of federally recognized tribes is here: Federal Register Notice … more →

Tags: Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, federal recognition, Bureau Of Indian Affairs, List of Federally Recognized Tribes

"Slumber[ing] on its Rights": Menominee Tribe v. US

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 1 year ago: This case regards a claim for contract support costs from IHS. The district court rejected the claim … more →

Tags: Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Laches, Statute of Limitations, Menominee Tribe v. United States, contract support costs

Indian Frauds: US v Refert -- Impersonating an Indian

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 1 year ago: Here are the materials in US v. Refert, an Eighth Circuit case affirming the conviction of a woman c … more →

Tags: Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Indian Frauds, US v. Refert

NYTs: "Running from Despair" -- Profile of Wings of America

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 1 year ago: From the NYTs: SANTA FE, N.M. — On a cold Saturday morning last month, 16-year-old Chantel Hunt ran … more →

Tags: News, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, cultural resources, language, diabetes, Navajo Nation, New York Times, Albuquerque, "Running from Despair"

NYTs Editorial on Indian Health Care Bill1 comment

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 1 year ago: From the NYTs: Vetoing History’s Responsibility President Bush’s threat to veto a bill intended to i … more →

Tags: News, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, New York Times, Indian Health Care Reauthorization Act, Presidential veto, United States Commission on Civil Rights


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