91.   Still, by several accounts, Biskind worked for years in clinics and private hospitals, providing abortions.

92.   Structurally, too, it has been far easier for private hospitals to plan for the upheaval.

93.   That has made Medicare and Medicaid patients more attractive to private hospitals, which have lured them away from public hospitals with aggressive marketing campaigns.

94.   That would rise if the VA succeeded in attracting more veteran patients with insurance away from private hospitals.

95.   The city established affiliation agreements with large private hospitals decades ago because it feared that high-quality doctors could not otherwise be attracted to its public hospitals.

96.   The city would then pay the private hospitals a management fee and monitor their performance.

97.   The flood of patients who cannot pay their bills is expected to force some emergency rooms to close, particularly in smaller private hospitals.

98.   The most obvious alternative is making payments to private hospitals.

99.   The novel opens in the mind of Malakhai, a magician in a private hospital in upstate New York.

100.   The private hospital used to pay only top-level recruits for the expense of relocating to this area.