91.   Accredited hospitals are eligible to receive Medicaid and Medicare payments.

92.   Advocates for teaching hospitals say that if the cuts continue, the hospitals might not be able to put the genie back in the bottle.

93.   AIDS campaigners suspect the hospitals are afraid that if they are known to be treating AIDS patients, other people will stay away.

94.   Already, they said, patients are lining up to have the scan and hospitals are advertising that they will provide it.

95.   But an indirect side effect is that hospitals are not as flush as they used to be.

96.   But elderly residents of Nemaha County fret over whether their hospital will be around much longer.

97.   But even here, the hospital is sparse.

98.   But federal officials and several health care economists said most hospitals were well aware of the standards and merely took advantage of lax enforcement.

99.   But except in the most egregious cases, rarely was any hospital administrator prosecuted.

100.   But her survival illustrates how important a hospital can be to the people living in a rural community.