Senate Proceeding on Aug 1st, 2007 :: 0:08:43 to 0:10:52
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Speech By: Byron Dorgan
Bill: S. 1200: Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2007

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Byron Dorgan: amendment here in anticipation of having that debate in the next couple of months here in the senate.

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Harry Reid: I say to my friend, the distinguished chairman of the indian affairs committee, someone who has been a tireless advocate for native Americans his entire career, i have 22 different tribal organizations in the state of Nevada. you say rationing health care. i think that's even being

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Speech By: Harry Reid
Bill: S. 1200: Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2007

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Harry Reid: too generous because there is no health care to ration in many instances in nevada. we've gone from having two wonderful hospitals for native americans; now we have one that's closed, the other one they don't

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Harry Reid: use it for acute care care. it's a situation that for our country should be an embarrass embarrassment. it is an embarrassment. we just don't -- people just don't know how bad it is. and so i say

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Harry Reid: to my friend through the chair that we're going to do this bill this year. if it's reported out of that finance committee, we're going to find a way to bring it to the floor. it is -- it is the

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Harry Reid: right thing to do. we talk about people who don't have advocates for them. my tribal organizations in Nevada don't have people back here advocate ing for them. and we need to advocate for them them.

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Harry Reid: i have to do that. and i'm especially on this issue issue, health care, the basic minimum that they deserve is having the ability to have some kind of health care. it is so -- it's in such a state

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Harry Reid: and will do everything i can to move this forward and make a commitment that we will do something this congress -- not this congress, this session of congress. mr. dorgan: mr. president, that commitment

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Harry Reid: of neglect now that i, frankly, don't know what to tell these tribal organizations when they come to see me. more than a decade waiting to do something about this. so i support my friend from north dakota

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Harry Reid: and will do everything i can to move this forward and make a commitment that we will do something this congress -- not this congress, this session of congress. mr. dorgan: mr. president, that commitment

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Harry Reid: of neglect now that i, frankly, don't know what to tell these tribal organizations when they come to see me. more than a decade waiting to do something about this. so i support my friend from north dakota

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Harry Reid: from the majority leader is certainly welcome. and i would just observe this: there are very few places in this country where someone having a heart attack would be wheeled into an emergency room with

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Harry Reid: a piece of paper attached to their thigh by masking tape that says to the receiving hospital, by the way, if you admit this woman, understand you're on your own because contract health care funding

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Speech By: Byron Dorgan

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Byron Dorgan: from the indian health care service has run out. very few circumstances in this country would you see that and it describes once again how unbelievably urgent it is for us to pass this bill. the commitment