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INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE COVERAGE BILL

To provide total, universal health care coverage for Indigenous Red “Indian” (misnomer “Native American, American Indian”) Peoples through issuance of an “Indigenous Universal Health Care Coverage Card”

Be it enacted by the U.S. congress,

SECTION 1, PURPOSES. The purposes of this act are to - -

(1) To provide for, and to insure, perpetual, complete health care coverage and health care needs for Indigenous “Indian” peoples through use of an “Indigenous Universal Health Care Coverage I.D. Card”.

(2) To cultivate positive relationships between the United States and Indigenous Peoples with regard to inherent Treaty and health care agreements and rights, which allowed the United States to occupy and utilize great areas of land and profit from extensive resources.

(3) Save money within the Indian Health Service (IHS, a branch of the Public Health Service) budget by streamlining costs incurred from the unnecessary act of trying to pick and choose how and to whom to deny coverage for – despite the fact all Indians should be covered, irregardless of income and based upon past agreements and supreme law Treaties (Article VI, U.S. Constitution, “Treaties made with Indian nations shall be the supreme law of the land”); streamline costs through the issuance of the “Indigenous Universal Health Care Coverage I.D. Card”.

SECTION 2. STATEMENT OF CONGRESS

(a) The congress recognizes that the territories currently referred to as the “United States of America” are the Indigenous aboriginal homelands of Indigenous Red Nations and Peoples who, despite diminished numbers, continue to remain a living, breathing people upon Great Turtle Island, the “western hemisphere”.

(b) The congress recognizes that since the year 1776, the United States has often violated the rights of Indigenous Red Peoples and failed to honor both legal and moral laws and that this practice must cease and American’s should not feel guilty but live up to their own laws and do what is morally and legally responsible for.

(c) The Congress recognizes that many Indigenous people are denied their inherent health care coverage because they “live off reservation” or do not “live within the service area”, based upon logistics instead of who they are.

(d) The congress recognizes past U.S. government officials and others who have worked respectfully and diligently over the past years to develop policies, procedures, and laws to allow for continued health care services to Indigenous Peoples.

(e) The congress recognizes that enhanced development to further respect Indigenous Peoples health care needs is to issue to each Indigenous Person an internationally accepted identification (I.D.) card (“Indigenous Universal Health Care Coverage I.D. Card”) with the individual Indigenous “Indian” person’s name and identification number on it, acceptable at all clinics and hospitals to insure health care as needed to Indigenous Peoples.

SECTION 3. DEFINITIONS

For the purposes of this act: (1) The term “Indigenous Person” replaces the misnomers “Native American” and “American Indian”.

(2) The term “Indigenous Universal Health Care Coverage I.D. Card” shall refer to the card issued to each and every Indigenous Red “Indian” Person which insures payment for their complete health care needs.

TITLE 1 – INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE COVERAGE BILL

SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE.

This title may be cited as the “INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE COVERAGE” BILL.
SEC. 102. FINDINGS.

The congress finds the following:

(1) Indigenous Red Nations and Peoples believe they are entitled to complete health care coverage in honor of their Treaties and also for the billions of acres of lands ceded to the United States government and that hundreds of trillions in profit were extracted and continue to be extracted from these lands in forms of timber, livestock, agriculture, business, dams, coal, gold, oil, and other resources.

(2) Many Indigenous peoples have accrued large personal financial liability and debt in the form of hospital bills, and are currently unable to make common purchases through credit of cars, homes, appliances, etc. and are in dire need of relief.