51.   For De Marco and her husband, Francis, waiting hours for treatment in a crowded public hospital is something they never saw themselves doing.

52.   For years, public hospitals and clinics in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso and other Texas cities have offered preventive medical care to illegal immigrants.

53.   For the public hospital suing for costs of treating many thousands of patients, the sheer weight of the damages becomes a new kind of proof of wrongdoing.

54.   Government officials agree that before the drugs can be safely distributed in the public hospitals, prices must come down and the health system must be upgraded.

55.   Government officials agree that before the drugs can be safely distributed in the public hospitals.

56.   Governments have tried to provide at least rudimentary care, typically by government doctors and public hospitals.

57.   Giuliani can affect treatment only in the public hospitals, where the average patient has been relying on methadone for nine years.

58.   He has also criticized public hospitals as being beholden to local political interests.

59.   He is accused of demanding money in exchange for using his political influence in the sale of a public hospital.

60.   He has begun therapy at a public hospital under a new government program to help people who lost their jobs for political reasons, but relief appears distant.