Statement by President Obama on the Reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 23, 2010.

Earlier today, I signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform bill passed by Congress.  In addition to reducing our deficit, making health care affordable for tens of millions of Americans, and enacting some of the toughest insurance reforms in history, this bill also permanently reauthorizes the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, which was first approved by Congress in 1976.   As a Senator, I co-sponsored…