71.   Enrollment grew because of court decisions, an increase in the childhood poverty rate and a loosening of eligibility rules that provided benefits to children with mental impairments.

72.   Employers said health insurers would drag them into such litigation and the risk of new lawsuits would discourage companies from providing health benefits to employees.

73.   Employers who provide health benefits to employees worry that they too will be named as defendants if Congress makes it easier to sue HMOs and insurance companies.

74.   Falun Gong combines Buddhism, Taoism and mysticism with a slow-motion exercise program that followers say provides benefits for both physical and spiritual health.

75.   Fifteen other states also provide lower benefits for newcomers, although most of the laws have been blocked by federal or state judges.

76.   Every Medicare HMO in our state should agree to provide these benefits.

77.   For many players, the games provide numerous benefits they find useful in real life.

78.   For those who want to redesign Medicare, the thorniest issue is how to provide a new prescription drug benefit.

79.   Gershon agreed that the government has no obligation to provide benefits, but called that only half the argument.

80.   General assistance provides welfare benefits to needy people who do not qualify for the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program.