GAO: Indian health agency still losing equipment

The Indian Health Service is continuing to lose equipment at an alarming rate despite efforts to better account for the agency's property, according to congressional investigators.

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Senators slam Indian Health agency for lost items

The head of the Indian Health Service defended his agency on Thursday against accusations that it lost millions of dollars' worth of equipment and tried to cover it up.

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GAO: Indian health agency lost millions in goods

The Indian Health Service has lost at least $15.8 million worth of equipment and later falsified documents to cover up some of those losses, according to congressional investigators.

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There is an epidemic of uninsured and underinsured in the United States faced with rising health care costs which has brought many of them into financial ruin. In fact, medical bankruptcy accounts for sixty per cent of all personal bankruptcies in the country.

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Great rebuttal to an unfavorable and very misinformed editorial in the Native Times. Obama couldn't make it to a conference "Prez on the Rez", but he's the only candidate to sponsor legislation to improve Indian Health Services. He's also appointing a Nat. Am.

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Overprescription of painkillers is "fueling serious painkiller abuse" on American Indian reservations in Montana and across the nation, the Great Falls Tribune reports.

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