Make good: Congress should fix Indian health funding
Government statistics are stark: Life expectancy for American Indians is nearly five years less than that of the general population, and death rates from various diseases — including tuberculosis (750 percent), alcoholism (550 percent) and diabetes (190 percent) — are dramatically higher for Indians than other Americans.
Against that backdrop, Washington’s attempts to stabilize funding for the Indian...
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