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Lawmakers will not strip $58M in tribal health funds from budget
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by Katie Klingsporn, WyoFile.comWhat was widely interpreted — and decried — as a $58-million budget cut to tribal health services was actually an accounting maneuver, the chairman of Wyoming’s budgeting committee said Tuesday.
(Katie Klingsporn/WyoFile)Wind River Cares, as it’s commonly called, operates clinics and health services across reservation communities and beyond.
That morning, Sheridan Republican Rep. Ken Pendergraft announced he would propose several cuts as the committee walked through the Wyoming Health Department’s budget.
The Indian Health Service is a federal program responsible for providing health care services to Native Americans.
Tribes can opt to administer their own health care services, as both the Eastern Shoshone and the Northern Arapaho tribes have done with their so-called “638” clinics.