21.   It was not immediately clear how buying such systems would help poor patients get insurance or health care.

22.   Medicaid reimbursement rates are still generous for inpatient care and, indeed, the private centers are generally happy to admit poor patients who have this type of insurance.

23.   Seven private hospitals that now handle poor patients are run by a nonprofit corporation, with a board that represents private, city and county interests.

24.   Some advocates for AIDS patients criticized Pfizer and the government for not providing the drug to the minority of poor patients who are treated in private clinics.

25.   The figure represented everything from the cost of prosecuting a drug dealer to the cost of financing the hospital stay of a poor patient with emphysema.

26.   The North Broward Hospital District, which runs Broward General, says it would have to cut back services for poor patients if forced to pay the entire award.

27.   The lawmakers blocked proposals to cut the transportation allowance for poor AIDS patients and a cut in foster care.

28.   The money came from a state trust fund designed to help hospitals care for poor patients.

29.   The victim was a beloved figure in Huntsville who treated poor patients for free.

30.   This week, Congress is debating how much money to give a national program that provides free medication for poor AIDS patients.