1.   Can you imagine requiring that all Medicaid and Medicare recipients go to public hospitals?

2.   Even medical care is available on demand at most public hospitals to indigent people with no money.

3.   For-profit hospitals turn away patients who have no insurance, sending them to overcrowded public hospitals.

4.   From almost the first day, she and her husband had begun the round of public hospitals and clinics.

5.   Nursing in public hospitals was also pensionable, while the more prestigious voluntary hospitals were early pension providers.

6.   Public hospitals are concerned that they will not have enough money to treat indigent people not covered by Medicaid.

7.   The average costs of treating patients at private hospitals are less than those in public hospitals.

8.   Today, like many other public hospitals that once took polio patients, it houses many AIDS patients.

9.   The law, the result of years of lobbying by the Roman Catholic church, bans abortions in private clinics and puts strict limits on them in public hospitals.

10.   Also, he noted, many public hospitals run costly special services like trauma care and burn units.