Tribes and Alaska Natives are helping promote health care insurance options under the Affordable Care Act.

The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Health Board and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska received grants under the Navigators program. They will be helping American Indians and Alaska Natives enroll in the new health insurance exchanges that are launching across the country on October 1.

The Navigators program has been attacked by Republicans on Capitol Hill, who claim it can lead to fraud.

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Nebraska groups promote new insurance marketplace (AP 9/19)
Health-Law Navigators Blasted in Republican Report (The Wall Street Journal 9/18)
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