The story of Native American and Alaska Native veteran health care is akin to all rural veteran health care in the United States: longer distances, bigger challenges, and scarcer resources. COVID-19 has lifted the veil on the vulnerabilities of our healthcare system for our Native veterans, but those weaknesses have been known for many years. […]
Author Archives: Matthew Brogdon
Matthew Brogdon is founder and executive director of Hesperus, an organization focused on Native American leadership. A longer version of this essay originally appeared in “The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas from the Bush Institute.” This is distributed by InsideSources.com.