U.S. Senator Mike Rounds has introduced legislation this week to provide for a comprehensive audit of the Indian Health Service (IHS). This bill would require the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to use existing funds to contract with an independent firm to assess the state of IHS.
Rounds says, with working with the tribes last year, IHS could not even tell him where the money they were receiving went…
Rounds adds that the outcomes of IHS services are terrible…
Rounds says it’s time for IHS to get their spending under control…
Rounds’ request for a comprehensive audit of IHS is supported by the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association, which passed a resolution in 2016 calling upon Congress to demand an audit of IHS. Earlier this session, the South Dakota State Legislature passed a resolution urging Congress to audit IHS.
(KCCR)