Cherokee County Deserves Better Health Care Access

This comes out of what has been absolutely unbelievable when it comes to tribal government. Indian Health Service has been underfunded for decades. In order to meet IHS facility shortcomings, the tribe operates a number of its own health care programs. Over the last few years, the upper management has been reducing health care services while the need has increased, and it's not as though the tribe can't fund these programs. Tribal leadership misplaces its priorities. Frivolous items like the theater that averages about 3-4 cars a night seem to get unlimited funding while health care and education fall lower on the totem pole.
Tribal members residing in Cherokee County are just as much tribal members as Principal Chief Michell Hicks and Deputy of Health and Medical Susan Leadingfox. Perhaps one of these two can explain while tribal members in Cherokee County deserve to be treated like second class citizens.
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