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One of the striking things about the health care debate is that in all the left’s bloviation about the wonders of a government-run system, no one uses a current, U.S. based system as a model. Medicare is going bankrupt, states are worried about the unfunded mandates in Medicaid, and stories emerge every week about substandard care in the VA system.
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| Life expectancy is four years less among Native Americans than the population as a whole. Rural Indians fare even worse. |
| As a consequence, a number of tribes are moving away from the IHS system and doing tribal contracting, |
| They administer their own hospitals and clinics, and as a result wind up with better access and better quality care. |
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