In brief, then, he believed the only prod available to procure essential medical care for the “affected peoples”, i.e. ~ that of results of radiation effects from the U.S. testing progr~~ had been taken away. Dr. Hector J. Blejer, M.D., took issue with some of the basic tenets of the Loma Linda plan. He maintained that radiation related diseases could be distinguished contrary to the statement made in the plan. Epidemiologic studies have demonstrated this. Genetic considerations were overlooked, etc. Mr. T. Mitchell, Enewetak Counsel, stated that he has long been aware that the U.S. Government is paralyzed as to understanding the meaning of the section of P.L. 96-205 that relates to the health care proposal. In his estimation, the statute clearly calls for a plan for the four named atolls. He does not find He noted that Loma any such plan in the Loma Linda proposal. Linda’s estimates for its so-called Four Atoll Plan and the Health Care Plan for all of the Marshalls come out very close together. How did the contractor arrive at these figures? Did the contractor estimate the cost of providing primary care only on the four named atolls with secondary and tertiary care to be provided at Kwajalein or in Honolulu? Would such a proposal cost $10 million a year? He doubts that very much. We are talking about providing special care for perhaps 2,000 people at the most? not 30,000 people. Dr. Hart noted that the statute calls for care for people of the named atolls and many of these (except for the people = Enewetak) no longer are resident on their home atolls. Mr. Mitchell stated that in his estimation the proposal indicts the Deparment of the Interior for 30 years of failure to provide adequate primary and secondary health care in the Marshalls. Was the contractor aware that while its team was working out an overall health care proposal for all of the Marshalls, the Government of the Marshalls was negotiating with the U.S. Government in its status talks for financial support of from $25-26 Million annually? This Loma Linda proposal would provide health care at U.S. expense to everyone in the Marshalls up and beyond that financial subsidy. The plan should be able to state how many people would have to be sent out of the Marshalls for secondary and tertiary care. To him, the Loma Linda proposal plan proposes to take a health care program that is in a shambles and upgrade it. Is he not correct that it would cost appreciably less to provide primary care for the people of the four named atolls with secondary and The Department of tertiary treatment outside the Marshalls? the Interior could never make up its mind with respect to P.L. 96-205 but he had hoped that the contractor would have made a better interpretation and produced a plan for health care for the people of the four named atolls. -9-