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October Policy Updates: Budget Consultations, Historic Apology, Traditional Healing Coverage, and More

National Council on Urban Indian Health

October 9 DTLL – IHS writes to Tribal leaders to provide updated Facility Master Plans and other identified health care facility needs to be considered for inclusion in the 2026 IHS and Tribal Health Care Facilities’ Needs Assessment Report to Congress. The next report is due in 2026.

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems. health care system and structural barriers have led to persistent health inequities that cost more than a million lives and billions of dollars, according to the national academies report.

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Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here’s why there’s so little progress.

HEALTHBEAT

Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems. health care system and structural barriers have led to persistent health inequities that cost more than a million lives and billions of dollars, according to the national academies report.