US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says she plans to launch a multiyear effort to improve health care for Native Americans. Sebelius calls the current system a “historic failure.”
She told the Associated Press that part of her strategy is to recruit more providers for reservations and to focus more on preventative care. Sebelius says her department is also increasing the size of the Public Health Service. Part of that agency’s mission is to dispatch doctors to reservations.
The government is required to provide American Indians with free health care on reservations. But the Indian Heath Service only has about half the money it needs.
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