• Welcome to Health Care Reform for American Indians and Alaska Natives

  • This website supports and promotes state-level involvement of tribes, urban Indian organizations and Indian health organizations at the sub-national level including; multistate/regional, IHS area, state, and inter-tribal.
  • This site organizes the information you will need to understand health care reform by directing you to the best resources and some original analysis.  The target audience is Indian Health Program Staff, elected tribal leaders and staff from other Indian organizations.  In most cases it recommends other sites as the 'best' place for information--not this site. Typically you have better or more current information about your own state, but should find useful the information about progress in other states.
  • Acknowledgments:  
  • Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe 
  • Fond du lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
  • California Rural Indian Health Board
  • National Indian Health Board
  • Assistance from Verne' Boerner and Emma Medicine White Crow
  • No direct financial support from any state or federal agency.
  •   The American Indian Health Commission is a state level organization of 27 Washington Tribes and the 2 Title V Urban Indian (and other Indian Organizations). 

  •   The Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board members include all tribes of the Portland Area of the Indian Health Service, the part of Indian country that traditionally has the most progressive Indian health policy in the nation thanks to active Tribes and active organizations.
  • National Indian Health Board tracks health care reform and is a partner to "Tribalhealthcare.org" & a good place to get a 'primer' on health care reform and informational materials is their  health care reform website
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105 Maple Park Ave SE Olympia,WA 98501
Free and unlimited use granted, citation appreciated
Some pages archived summer 2013
Most decisions have been made for October 1, 2013 launch of health insurance marketplaces.  This notice will alert which pages are no longer updated.  Where 'facts' are now in error every attempt will be made to remove 'unhelpful' information-please email. efox@pgst.nsn.us.
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Suggested Citation: Website,  Health Care Reform for American Indians and Alaska Natives, Ed Fox, 2013
Suggested Citation: Website,  Health Care Reform for American Indians and Alaska Natives, Ed Fox, 2013