Nevada Newsmakers

Host: Sam Shad
Co-Host: Paul Enos, Nevada Motor Transport Association, Inc.

Guests:
Dr. Thomas Hunt, Chair - Department of Family Medicine, University of Nevada School of Medicine
Pundits:
David Jacobs, Assistant City Editor, RGJ
Larry Matheis Executive Director, Nevada State Medical Association
John Gwaltney, State School Board


"This program is really compensation that is supposed to offset the cost of medical care…This isn’t we will pay for your medical care for the rest of your life, it is a set of money that was set aside back in 1990 and said, you know, people have suffered as a result of the Nevada testing that was done and also testing in other parts of the world, therefore we will give them some money to compensate for the damage that was received."

- Dr. Hunt discussing the NV Radiation Exposure Screening and Education project that offers minimal medical compensation to those that lived in counties near where the above ground atomic tests took place in NV during the 50s and 60s that contracted cancer.