The new health care reform law permanently reauthorizes the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, which expired in 2000.

• Modernizes delivery of health services in Indian Country
• Fulfills the government’s trust responsibility to provide adequate health care
• Improves access to quality care for all American Indians in Montana

Health care is strengthened across the board.

• Eases enrollment in Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program for American Indians

Better access to coverage.

• American Indians will be able to choose their own providers, including tribal health providers and the Indian Health Service

• Ends deductibles and co-pays for preventative care
  for seniors this year, for everyone by 2018
• Caps out-of-pocket costs
• Stops insurance companies from dropping coverage for illness
• Ends discrimination based on pre-existing conditions
• Allows Americans access to same health care as members of Congress
• Saves hundreds of billions of dollars in the long run
• Includes zero tax increases for 95 percent of Americans
• Strengthens Medicare
• Completely protects veterans' and military benefits

SAVES LIVES               SAVES MONEY               SAVES MEDICARE

"We're now moring forward to fix our broken health insurance system."
- Senator Jon Tester