Miss Ann, you have several great points there. The one thing white Americans adamantly and deliberately refuses to acknowledge is that Native medical care, all over the US, came about primarily because white America stole and confiscated 90-percent of Native American lands and resources all over the country. The feds had to do payback and rightly so. All white people do is get mad and call us welfare takers, freeloaders, cheats, uncivilized, ignorant, and all the rest. We are grateful, at least I am, for the fantastic work SCF and ANTHC does and has done. It took almost a half-century of fighting and advocating for what we have here. I was among the first staff at AFN when it started and healthcare was among the top issues. Our medical care wasn't free and still isn't. I pay through my private insurance at the ANMC and am happy to do so. I am not a freeloader and neither are many, many, thousands upon thousands, of Alaska Native and Native Americans across the country.