MinnPost: "Senators demand national investigation into Indian Health Service mismanagement"
MinnPost covers the Indian Affairs Committee hearing over corruption in the Indian Health Service.
Sen. Al Franken and leaders on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee from both parties later today will call for a national investigation of the Indian Health Service, MinnPost has learned, after an audit of one regional IHS showed management that led Chairman Byron Dorgan to describe it as "completely dysfunctional."
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"These problems have a detrimental impact on patient health care and are an unacceptable use of federal dollars," wrote Franken, Dorgan, Indian Affairs Ranking Republican John Barrasso and others in a letter addressed to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to be published later today, adding that "we believe that the problems exposed in the Committee's investigation may not be unique to the Aberdeen area."
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