Healthcare video debate going for Indian Health Services tactics
Every time I think people like Glenn Beck can't tick me off more than they have, they pull it out of somewhere.
Stumbled on this little bit in Indian Country Today about Glenn Beck comparing Indian Health Service to the proposed health care reform. It is a little bit "one plus one equals a barrel of monkeys", but there is some genuine points made if you can weave your way through the commentary. Anyways, the video:
First, Glenn Beck is beyond hope. Even his advertisers are abandoning him.
Second, the Indian Health Service does have many shortcomings and it does need funding and you are right, we can thank folks such as Beck for the shortfall.
I am a non-Native man married to an Indian woman (Apache) and, for all its short-comings (it does not fall as short here in Alaska as it does in my wife's homeland) the Indian Health Service has always been there for she and my children.
I cannot say the same for my health insurance company. Here are three posts from my own blog which deal with the subject:
Well Bill, I am Native American, and was stuck using IHS for a long time!
I am one of the original test babies from the late 60's, for the MMR vaccine. See, wasn't good enough to try on white kids...let's use the Indian kids.
I was one of those born in Claremore, OK, at the IHS facility that was injecting newborn girls with a hormone to cause sterility.
Women were going in for a simple appendectomy, and coming out with all repoductive organs removed - without their knowledge!! What was Indian Health's reasoning, ten years after this masacre against Indian women and girl children began, when they were finally caught? "They were breeding faster than rabbits. We had to do something."
I've watched them come close to killing many people, near and dear to my heart. I go into these hospitals and clinics, and their equipment is twenty years old.
Their autoclave equipment no longer reaches the standards and codes of the regular public and private hospitals, because of the age. So, where does it all go? IHS.
You claim that IHS has shortcomings? Try Government neglegance and ignorance, in regards to MY people.
My main question is, why aren't you providing medical care through YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE, FOR YOUR WIFE AND CHILDREN??? You have the luxery and option to go get a second opinion if you feel that a doctor on your health care plan is incompetant. With IHS, take it or leave it. Perforably, the latter of the two.
So, rethink what it is that you have stated on here.
Glenn, kudos to you and your team for this story!!!!!
I like the angle of your blog. It is a broken system. I am AK Native and I feel like our tribes and corporations have our backs. Our health care is by no means perfect but we get medical care when we need it, I think our health care system should be one that is model'd in Indian country. No native no matter your tribe is turned away but down south you might as well be white if your from another tribe.
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First, Glenn Beck is beyond hope. Even his advertisers are abandoning him.
Second, the Indian Health Service does have many shortcomings and it does need funding and you are right, we can thank folks such as Beck for the shortfall.
I am a non-Native man married to an Indian woman (Apache) and, for all its short-comings (it does not fall as short here in Alaska as it does in my wife's homeland) the Indian Health Service has always been there for she and my children.
I cannot say the same for my health insurance company. Here are three posts from my own blog which deal with the subject:
http://wasillaalaskaby300.squarespace.com/journal/category/health-insurance
(WR: that link... hint, hint...)
Well Bill, I am Native American, and was stuck using IHS for a long time!
I am one of the original test babies from the late 60's, for the MMR vaccine. See, wasn't good enough to try on white kids...let's use the Indian kids.
I was one of those born in Claremore, OK, at the IHS facility that was injecting newborn girls with a hormone to cause sterility.
Women were going in for a simple appendectomy, and coming out with all repoductive organs removed - without their knowledge!! What was Indian Health's reasoning, ten years after this masacre against Indian women and girl children began, when they were finally caught? "They were breeding faster than rabbits. We had to do something."
I've watched them come close to killing many people, near and dear to my heart. I go into these hospitals and clinics, and their equipment is twenty years old.
Their autoclave equipment no longer reaches the standards and codes of the regular public and private hospitals, because of the age. So, where does it all go? IHS.
You claim that IHS has shortcomings? Try Government neglegance and ignorance, in regards to MY people.
My main question is, why aren't you providing medical care through YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE, FOR YOUR WIFE AND CHILDREN??? You have the luxery and option to go get a second opinion if you feel that a doctor on your health care plan is incompetant. With IHS, take it or leave it. Perforably, the latter of the two.
So, rethink what it is that you have stated on here.
Glenn, kudos to you and your team for this story!!!!!
You idiots! Watch us ban against you and your merchandise, for using THIS topic to try and sell your wares...IDIOTS! Go to ebay or craigslist.
I like the angle of your blog. It is a broken system. I am AK Native and I feel like our tribes and corporations have our backs. Our health care is by no means perfect but we get medical care when we need it, I think our health care system should be one that is model'd in Indian country. No native no matter your tribe is turned away but down south you might as well be white if your from another tribe.
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