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Protest lack of funding for Native American Healthcare Services

Created by A.D. on January 04, 2016

The healthcare system is failing Native Americans. There are thousands of American reliant on Native American Health Care Services for their health needs. The system is not properly managed or funded. Each day someone is sent a letter of denial due to "lack of funds" for a potentially life saving procedure. Doctors have discovered possibly cancerous masses on patients lungs and have sent in a request for a biopsy to Contract Health only to receive a denial letter. Other patients are told that over 80% of their heart is blocked and they need an angioplasty only to receive a letter of denial for that procedure as well. The patients and doctors are at the mercy of Indian Health Services Contract Health. There is no telling how many people have died due to lack of care.

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