one knows how many victims of weber's abuse areou stilthere, or how many other people in the indian health servicethe story. and learn more from the reporters about investigating the indian health seice. >> we found a bunch of doctors with troubled track records before they joined the ihs or once they got there. >> then, visit our watch page where you can view more than 200 "frontline" documentaries. connect to the "frontline" community on facebook and twitter, and sign up for our newsletter at pbs.org/frontline. >> narrator: it was a landmark ruling--sa thous of new yorkers with severe mental illness had a right to live on their own. >> there was a huge question about whether people that hadtu been insonalized can live successfully in the community. >> narrator: and a right to fail. >> they just brought me there and said, "ta daaa!" >> narrator: "frontline" and propublica investigate. >> didt feel like you were left alone? >> i had no company actually. >> the question is when do you take away somebody's liberty? >> frontline is made possible by contributions to yr pbs station from viewers like yo

wall street journal" investigation, it found the agency within the department of health and human services called the indianh service repeatedly missed or ignored warning signs and tried to silence whistle-blowers ultimately allowing the doctor to continue preying on children. despite the suspicions of colleagues up and down the chain of command. that's a quote. one victim said the sexual abuse by the doctor started when he was just 11, around the time his father committed suicide. >> i went to the hospital to get my eyes checked to see if i could get some glasses, and he was just saying stuff, like trying to touch me and told me that if i feel uncomfortable with what he was doing, to let him know and he would stop. and i told him that i did. like, yeah, i feel uncomfortable. like, i don't know what this is for, why are you touching me? >> where was he touching you? >> everywhere. >> stanley patrick weber was convicted last year of sexually assaulting two boys and sentenced to 18 years in prison. he's appealing the conviction. the current head of the ihs responded to this investigation saying healing and pr

the department of health and human services has launched a probe of the indian health service over its mishandling of a doctor accused of pedophilia. the doctor, stanley patrick weber, was the focus of a recent investigation by "pbs frontline" and "the wall street journal." in 1995, indian health service officials concluded weber was molesting children but the agency allowed him to keep working for another 21 years continually transferring him , from reservation to reservation. he was eventually convicted in 2018 and was sentenced to 18 years in prison. in news from washington, d.c. ryan zinke has joined the , lobbying firm turnberry solutions just weeks after stepping down as interior secretary. he becomes the first former trump cabinet official to join a lobbying firm. shortly after taking office, presesident trump signed an executive order that purported to ban white house officials from lobbying for five years. but according to propublica, at least 33 former trump officials have managed to sidestep the ethics pledge. trump's former campaign manager corey lewandowski is also joining

my tribe is in the region which is the worst run area of the country for indian health service is. it is third world for health care we are dealing with in south dakota. we have doctors that have done surgery high on drugs, babies being born on the floors. they are killing our people. believe it'stly going to take indian health care getting out of the business of delivering health care to deliver what our tribe deserves. that's why when i was in congress, i had a very comprehensive piece of legislation that would have informed indian health services and given the tribe more control to partner with outside organizations to reform their hospital systems. what i'm going to be asking for his waivers, that we have the ability to come alongside a tribe and help facilitate them. i believe it would save money for the federal government and deliver better health care for our tribes, as well. >> related health crisis, the methamphetamines epidemic. running the numbers, quickly in 2017, more than 3000 people were arrested on meth related crimes in south dakota. 2002, so overfrom a 15 year per

pbs, "frontline" and the "wall j strernal" present an investigative report into the american indian health serviceedator on the reservation" focuses on the dades-long failure to stop a government pediatrician who had been accused of sexlly abusing native american boys in his care onhe blackfeet indian reservation in montana. >> reporter: the reservation's only hospital was run by the. c> brangham: h.s., which struggled to find rs. mary ellen was the hospital's c.e.o. at the time. >> he had been without a pediatrician for a while, so here comes the new doctor. all i cowad think of he looks comfort. he was young. he just seemed like he would be a good fit for us. >> reporter: e of the first things dr. weber did is help expand the hospital's yoth outreach programs. >> they were talking about we want to do something in the school. we have some programs that wold blend really well with the school. i ju thought, wow, here's something that the hospital can do for community. we'll put dr. weber out there in the community. >> almost from the start concerns began to emerge. ken davis is the chairman of the

interested, for instance in native american issues like me, getting that done and funding the indian health care service, again, is pretty important. i can list a whole range of really bipartisan victories in those six bills. finally, the bed space argument in my view has been much too limited. people forget, we actually take care of unaccompanied minors in the health and human services budget. not in the department of homeland security. so there are literally thousands of additional benefits -- beds and when we have these surges, which we do on occasion, which are unpredictable, it's one of the -- we act as if we can precisely decide how many beds, you really can't because you never know how many people are going to be apprehended or what can category they'll fall. in there's a big difference between somebody with a criminal background and an unaccompanied minor and a big difference in when they're housed. when we had these surges, whether under president obama or president trump, we've seen more and more unaccompanied minors as part of this. we've been pretty successful both at predicting but then mov

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health insurance. medicare and medicaid enrollees would transition into the new system. it would not impact the veteran's affairs or indian sealth serviceserage. but even as the t democratic contenders so far seem to agree, looking carefully, there is divide over how far to go and hw fast. the day he announc presidential run, new jersey senator cory booker, when asd, said he would not end private health insurance.s >> even countrat have vast access to publicly offered heal care still have private health care, so no. >> desjardins: also in favor of keepg private health insuran are senators kirsten gillibrand of new york and elizabeth warren of massachusetts. that versus california senator kamala harris, who told a cnn town hall in january she does want to end private insurance. >> i believe the solution, and i actually feel very strgly about this, is that we need to have medicare for all. that's just the bottom le >> desjardins: later her communications team walked that back, saying she is open to other pla as well. fully government-run health care is the broadest idea but many democratic candidates also support smaller takes on that, lik