Indian Health Services is supposed to provide government-funded healthcare for the Native American population. But compared to Veterans Affairs, Medicare, and Medicaid, it spends the lowest amount on its patients. Hospitals routinely are unable to perform specialized services, and the native population in Santa Fe sometimes must travel hundreds of miles to their reservation, just to receive care.
Paper Genocide
Aaron Cantú | Santa Fe Reporter | June 28, 2017 | 3,100 words