11.   Before the new law, inmates frequently got a variety of federal payments, including those reserved for the aged, blind or disabled.

12.   A Boston Globe article about cuts in federal Medicare payments to hospitals incorrectly stated the payment reduction for Southcoast Health System of New Bedford, Mass.

13.   But it relies on annual federal payments authorized by Congress to help underwrite operations.

14.   But opposition to universal coverage is formidable, while the fiscal drive to slash federal payments to hospitals seems unstoppable.

15.   By law, there is no second chance to qualify for federal payments.

16.   Currently, commodity prices are high, so the fixed federal payments are almost like a bonanza.

17.   Driving the low pay are state and federal payments for long-term care, Hite said.

18.   Even lands in the Conservation Reserve Program can be included in the program without affecting federal payments to landowners.

19.   Federal payments to health plans would be set through competitive bidding, Breaux said.

20.   Federal payments cover about two-thirds of that amount.