21.   Most Americans now get their health insurance through employers, but why should hard-pressed employers insure their workers if the government will?

22.   Monroe said with these costs rising, the government will most likely attempt to trim Medicare expenses across the board.

23.   On Tuesday, Japan partly reversed that decision, announcing that the government would buy more government bonds.

24.   Private waste-disposal companies would still have to build and operate these landfills, but state and local governments would not unless Congress underwrote the costs.

25.   Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told Indonesian President Suharto that his government will back an International Monetary Fund package to help restore confidence in the Indonesian economy.

26.   Still at issue is whether the government will cut its reimbursement rate for Epogen.

27.   Storm victims will be eligible for federal aid, as will local governments.

28.   Ted Larkin, an analyst at Bunting Warburg Inc. in Toronto, said the Dutch government will likely to provide an incentive package.

29.   The government would investors government-held shares in Japan Tobacco Inc. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. as collateral, the reports said.

30.   The government will by the bad debt by the end of this year.