Continued comments Centennial Care and consultation

Continuing on my comments on the Tribal Consultation on July 30th at Dancing Eagle Casino:

Having searched the HSD website again today I still have not beena ble to find the new version on the 1115 Waiver "Centennial Care" or the presentation that HSD presented to Tribal Leaders last Monday.  Of course Sec. Squir and Julie Wienberg did say that the waiver would not be avaliable to view by the public until after they submitted it to CMS in mid August.

Going off the limited inforamation that we do have from the slide presenation I will start with slide 2 :
Opperational/ Implemenation Time Line

According to the slide HSD submitted the Waiver on April 25, 2012 to CMS and will submit updated by mid August 2012?  This is where I have and issue with HSD.  For those of you that do not know there was a couple of news articles regarding the Waiver submission to CMS and the fact that both NM and Kansas wrote to CMS asking them to volunteeraly resend their waivers because they will have a hugh affect on Tribes and that they needed to have more tribal consultation.  I am looking for my copy on this letter if any one has it please forward to me or post it.  We first heard this from non-native health advocates and then confirmed it from a member of US HHS Sec Sebelius STAG.

Since these articles and statments were made public HSD has stated on several instances that "NO CMS DID NOT REJECT the WAIVER" and then "WE are voluntarily pulling back the waiver to get more PUBLIC input" and " WE DID NOT resend the waiver".  I would not question HSD as much if they were just honest about the situation.  The following letter is a respone to Govenor Madalena from Jemez Pueblo regarding the Waiver