71.   His government decided against distributing the standard anti-AIDS drug, AZT, to public hospitals.

72.   In addition, public hospitals in many places, including New York, provide care to prisoners, police officers and fire fighters.

73.   In Dallas, Anderson said the public hospitals would continue providing the services.

74.   In Albany, Gov. George Pataki has pledged deep cuts in Medicaid, the major source of revenue for the public hospitals.

75.   In addition, some public hospitals fear they will lose so much money under a Medicaid managed care system that they will be forced to close.

76.   In many places, services offered by public hospitals already have been curtailed.

77.   In the last decade, the number of patients admitted each year to the public hospital here has nearly doubled.

78.   In that case, a deeply divided Supreme Court said that a public hospital had the right to dismiss a nurse for criticizing a training program.

79.   In Washington, his expertise and persuasiveness helped win increased Medicaid reimbursements for Truman and other public hospitals.

80.   It also set the stage for management turmoil that continues to this day, and a daily struggle for control of the wards and clinics of the public hospitals.