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Department.
We believe them to be useful and professional products, and
they will unquestionably be important in the development of the plan
we Will withhole endorsement until an integrated plan
required by the law, but /4t—dse—not_yet_possibieforustorsecomend—say
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is developed,
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From the foregoing, it will have become clear that a number of
questions require further consideration.
The most fundamental is the
matter of the geographic coverage of the program — whether it should
extend to,the people -cdewkd of the Marshalls, to the people of the four
named atolls wherever they reside, tothe people of the “other atolls"
that are found to have been affected, to the current residents of selected
atolls only.
Should an effort be made to provide for health care for
peoples of named and affected atolls that is separate and apart from the
health care program available to the general population of the Marshall
Islands?
Does the=—weemef the term "integrated", which the statute uses
in describing the comprehensive health care program, mean that such
program is to be integrated with medical programs of the Marshall Islands
Government, or does it instead describe ondy the relationship between the
primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of care?
To what extent should
the beneficiaries of the health program, in whatever way they are defined,
receive secondary and some tertiary care within the Marshall Islands?
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STATITE
If the peoples of atolls, other than the four named atells, should be
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provided the comprehensive care envisioned by Public Law 96-205, through