The Senate passed the bill in an 83-10 vote, sending it to the U.S. House. It would spend $35 billion over 10 years.
“This is a big step forward for Indian health care, and the Senate can be proud of its action today,” Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and author of the bill, said Tuesday in a statement.
“I have traveled around our country and seen the appalling conditions in many Indian health care facilities – even in North Dakota ,” Dorgan said. “People are literally dying because we have not acted. This bill is a first step that will help put an end to health care rationing and move the health care system in Indian Country in the right direction.”
Taken from Pravda Russion website:
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