I'm Just a Bill: Indian Health Service Modernization
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Indian Health Service Modernization A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Indian Health Service (IHS) modernization in the 119th Congress addressing chronic IHS underfunding (~50% of healthcare-need-based funding levels per documented HHS reports). What does it actually do? Advance appropriations for IHS (multi-year funding stability) Tribal Self-Governance expansion (more 638-contracted services) Workforce recruitment + retention programs Facilities modernization funding Mental and behavioral health expansion How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes with #6 Tatiana Schlossberg Health Accords Tribal-sovereignty composing layer, #7 MSA for cooperative-class supplemental capital pooling, and the Native American Self-Determination Act Amendments Bounty Poster. ...