Rural Native Vets Benefit if VA Picks Up More Medical Travel Costs

ICTMN Staff
June 13, 2013
It's deplorable that veterans lack adequate health care services . Help in one important way may be coming, though...

Roubideaux Re-Nomination Hearing Today, Available Online

ICTMN Staff
June 12, 2013
President Barack Obama’s nomination of Dr. Yvette Roubideaux to serve a second four-year term as director of the Indian Health Service will be the focus of a U.S...

Remembering Native Americans on Memorial Day

Helen Oliff
May 28, 2013
Helen Oliff for National Relief Charities penned the following column for Memorial Day, which was yesterday, May 27...

Murkowski: Administration Shirking Indian Health Cost Reimbursement

Rob Capriccioso
May 16, 2013
One of the leading senators focused on Indian affairs says the Obama administration is shirking its responsibility to reimburse Indian tribes for contract support costs they incur ...

Report: Native Vets Still Lack Adequate Health Care Services

ICTMN Staff
April 30, 2013
On April 26, the Government Accountability Office released an alarming report titled VA and IHS: Further Action Needed to Collaborate on Providing Health Care to Native American Ve...

Diabetes Watch: It Is Possible to Break the Sugar-Salt Addiction

Mary Annette Pember
April 16, 2013
A little over a year ago, I noticed an overweight woman about my age riding through the grocery store on a motorized shopping cart...

Next Year: Huge Changes Ahead for Indian Health System (Including Some New Money)

Mark Trahant
March 25, 2013
Three years ago, on March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act ...

Sequestration in Indian Country Getting National Attention

ICTMN Staff
March 21, 2013
Federal budget cuts currently being discussed as part of the sequester in Washington D.C. will have an effect on Indian country – mostly the Indian Health Service...
Steve Russell

Elders Are Our Strength

Elders suffered terribly during the Great Depression. I did not live then, but I am among the last generation schooled by the people who lived it. I know my family’s stories and the statistics, but the rest is speculation....

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March 21, 2013

Dangerous Talk From the Capitol: Evidence That More Money Does Improve Indian Health

Mark Trahant
March 20, 2013
Idaho’s Rep. Mike Simpson, a Republican, asked a critical question Tuesday. It’s one rarely asked, let alone, answered. The question: Does more government money work?...

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