Supreme Court Struggles With Tribal Health Care Funding Case (1)

The US Supreme Court considered how to divvy up a limited pot of money for tribal health care in a dispute over whether they can sue the government to recoup some administrative expenses.

“This is a complicated statute,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett said at argument Monday in the case centered on the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.

The law is intended to encourage tribes to run their own health care programs using money the Indian Health Service would otherwise tap to provide the same care.

Some justices were concerned more money for tribes that run their own health care ...