GInSBURG, FELOMAN, WEIL AND BRESS Mrs. Ruth Van Cleve December 15, 1980 Page Five 4 tion cards that will permit them to receive free secondary and tertiary health care at certain specific hospitals, such as Majuro and Ebeye or, as required, Kwajalein or Tripler. This system is presently employed for all the peoples of Rongelap and Utirik Atolls, including the directly irradiated population and the control groups. This type of program, which could be copied for Enewetak, Rongelap and Utirik Atolls, would accomplish several goals. First, it would achieve the basic purpose of the legislation -providing comprehensive health care to the direct victims of the U.S. nuclear testing program in the Marshall Islands. Second, it would effectuate such a program at a reasonable cost. The two Loma Linda proposals amount to nothing less than comprehensive health care programs for the entire Marshall Islands, complete with major improvements in the Majuro and Ebeye hospitals -- a laudable goal but not the Congress' intent in enacting Public Law 96-205. Third, this program would minimize the Loma Linda report's concern that it is "ethically impossible" to provide special health care, let us say, for the Bikinians living on Ebeye and deny it to their neighbors. In fact, it does no more than bring primary health care to Ejit and Kili and provide all Bikinians with the same level of care as is presently enjoyed by the people of Rongelap and Utirik. I urge you to ask the Loma Linda University team to estimate the annual costs for the above-described proposal and that the Secretary give strong consideration to such a program in his report to the Congress. Sincerely, Jonathan M. Weisgall JMW/damk ce: The Honorable Phillip Burton Ruth Clusen Richard D. Copaken, Esq. Richard F. Gerry, Esq. The Honorable Henry M. Jackson Jeffrey D. Jefferson, Esq. Theodore R. Mitchell, Esq. \