“If you want to see what government-run healthcare looks like, go to an Indian reservation,” said former Judge Andrew Napolitano on the “Glenn Beck Program” Wednesday. “There’s a saying on the reservation…don’t get sick after June.”
The show visited two Indian reservations in South Dakota to see how the federal government’s healthcare system for native Americans, Indian Health Service, actually works.
“[They] call it Indian Health Service but that’s kind of like saying ‘jumbo shrimp’ because the service is not there,” said South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds.
One woman recounted how her son had been treated by the Indian Health Service. The teenager’s jaw was shattered when he was kicked in the head by a bull. The nurses ran out of fresh tubes that needed to be inserted in his throat to help him breathe. She said he was lying on the floor in a pool of blood as nurses scrambled to pick up dirty tubes to insert in his throat. Such medical horror stories are commonplace in Indian country.
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