9/29/11 Newscast - The Government Accountability Office is critical of an Indian Health Service program that funds contracting with private sector care providers; Alaska Rep. Don Young wants to repeal all regulations created in the last 20 years

By Joaqlin Estus

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Anchorage, AK – The Government Accountability Office says the Indian Health Service is using inconsistent, incomplete and inaccurate data to determine funding levels for a program to pay private sector care providers for speciality and other services provided to Native Americans. A federal administrator says the system has many strengths as well. Alaska Rep. Don Young wants to repeal the last 20 years worth of regulations.