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Urban Indian health cut to affect 6,500 in Montana
Monday, February 20, 2006
President Bush's proposal to eliminate the $33 million urban Indian health care program will affect 6,500 Native Americans in Montana, The Great Falls Tribune reports.
More than half of the Native population in the state lives off-reservation. Many receive care at urban clinics in Great Falls, Missoula, Helena, Billings and Butte.
The elimination of the program could mean a reduction in services or something even worse.
"It would be a tremendous loss if we close," Thomas Champagne, the executive director of the Great Falls Indian Family Clinic, told The Tribune.
If the cut goes through, the clinic would lose $421,000, or almost half of the $862,000 budget. Once that money is gone, the clinic will have to give up other grants, said Champagne.
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