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When federal health care falls short, tribes improvise

Ed Williams

October 27, 2017 |

KUNM |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New Mexico

Indian Health Service, the Native American Health federal agency, has not always been an ideal health program due to lack of funding and lack of flexibility to each tribe. More tribes are opening their own clinics in order to tailor health care to their needs and create more jobs, or taking over the behavioural health programs only.

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