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    Senators rebuke Trump administration over challenge to Native Americans’ health care

    Senators rebuke Trump administration over challenge to Native Americans’ health care

    By DAN DIAMOND
    04/27/2018 05:20 PM EDT

    A group of senators today pushed back against a Trump administration plan that could require Native Americans to find jobs to keep their Medicaid coverage, warning against "potentially devastating" ramifications for tribes’ access to care.

    The growing fight over Native Americans’ health care, detailed in a recent POLITICO report, centers on tribes’ request to be exempted from new Medicaid work rules being introduced in several states, citing Native Americans’ status as separate government.

    The Trump administration is failing “to recognize the unique legal status of Indian tribes and their members under federal law, the U.S. Constitution, treaties, and the federal trust relationship,” 10 senators — led by Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) — wrote HHS Secretary Alex Azar. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) was the only Republican to sign the letter.

    The Trump administration has rejected the tribes‘ request, telling them in January that they were seeking an illegal racial preference.

    “HHS believes that such an exemption would raise constitutional and federal civil rights law concerns,” an HHS spokesperson told POLITICO last week. The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the senators’ letter.

    The senators said there’s longstanding legal precedent that established Native American tribes as separate governments.

    “[F]ederal classifications fulfilling federal obligations to Indians are not based on race but instead on a political relationship between the tribes and the federal government,” they wrote.

    The senators also asked the administration to share the documents explaining why Native Americans would be subject to Medicaid work requirements, which HHS has yet to publicly produce despite requests from the tribes and POLITICO.

    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...enators-557857
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    Something needs to be done to encourage members of the various Tribes to do what they have to do so find jobs and work. The unemployment on many of the reservations is very high and that's not good, so at minimum they need to comply with any work requirement under Medicaid that applies to everyone else. Through the years, the Tribes have tried to promote economic development to create jobs for their members, but with industry flying out of the country faster than we could count them and the remote locations of many of the Tribes, even though they've made some progress in this area, they've not made nearly enough.
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    They are free to get off the Rez, get an education and work to support themselves like the rest of the citizens in this country. No more special free passes!

    They have many problems on the Rez including domestic violence, rape, crime, alcoholism and fighting among each other. Extreme poverty with no incentive to move on. No one keeping them there!

    Do we continue to pay their way another 200 years? Hell no!

    Trump is right...every person in this country needs to work, support themselves and get off the government dole!
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    Exactly.
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