Margaret P. Moss
By Santee Ross, University of Montana
Medical care is something of a joke in Indian Country.
If you need medical assistance from Indian Health Services you can expect to wait hours and hours only to be given some aspirin for the pain, and antibiotics so you don’t die of infection.
This is why I always laugh when my mom tells me to go to the clinic when we have Tylenol in the bathroom.
Health care has been a poplar topic in almost every community in America especially the Native American communities. The ideas or threats for new health care plans have flooded headlines in newspapers and have even become discussion topics for many programs and debates, but this isn’t something new in Indian Country.
While the general population tries to find a solution to many health care issue, Native Americans are also trying to to solve their own issues with health care in the United States.
