61.   One provision centers on Clinton administration rules requiring states to pay welfare workers the minimum wage, which Republicans oppose.

62.   One solution may be for the state to pay the counties to house the patients, Allen told Brown.

63.   Other states should pay attention.

64.   Only if the state cannot pay will the national government do so.

65.   Patients could choose their own physicians and purchase additional insurance and the state would pay the bills.

66.   Pfizer spokesman Andrew McCormick said Medicaid coverage of Viagra was justified because many states were already paying for other impotence medications that cost about twice as much.

67.   Parents could send their children outside their home school district, he said, and the state would pay the bill.

68.   Right now, the state does not pay for medically necessary abortions, which would be handled through the Medicaid program.

69.   She knows this because the state has not paid her any of the thousands of dollars it owes for dispensing prescriptions to the poor.

70.   Some energy traders said the state was just paying the price any market participant must accept.