How can we expect Indian mental health care to be adequate when their medical care is so woefully lacking? Check this out:
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs has ordered Indian Health Service (IHS) officials that--at the risk of their jobs--they should tell their bosses that Indian health care is underfunded to the point that people are losing their lives. A major issue for health care is contract health--when funds run out mid-year, people have to wait for treatment until the next funding cycle!!
In a nation that is the richest and most powerful on Earth, why do we have this situation? The number of Americans without healthcare is alarmingly high across the board, but Indian people suffer further abuses. Remember, that many of the treaties Indian nations signed promised health care in exchange for land. Is the federal government continuing to dispossess American Indian people? Is this a slower and far more sinister form of genocide? Simply sitting back and watching people die may be the best way to justify the governments treatmnt. This has to stop!!
