IPS New Mexico Fellow Feleecia Guillen wrote a powerful personal op-ed and a vital fact sheet: about an unlikely victory in the GOP budget to renew and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), which provides compensation to uranium miners and “downwinders” sickened by nuclear testing. But Feleecia warns that the bill’s health care cuts will devastate many of the same impacted communities. “In the 16 RECA-eligible states alone, she found that this bill will rip health insurance away from over 3.9 million people — including 103,719 in New Mexico, the very state whose residents were sacrificed to build the U.S. nuclear empire.” “On top of that, a total of 240 rural hospitals in these states are considered at risk of closing.
Tri-Valley CAREs Senior Advisor, former Executive Director and member of our founding team in 1983, Marylia brings her expertise in non-profit management, fundraising, and the issues of nuclear abolition and environmental cleanup as well as her long history with the organization; Marylia lives in Livermore, CA. www.trivalleycares.org
