61.   It also means less money spent on expensive hospital care.

62.   Its service costs less than hospital care, making it an attractive contract for health maintenance organization.

63.   Likewise, many insurance plans cover fewer visits to a doctor, and fewer days of hospital care, when patients are treated for mental illness.

64.   Nursing homes want Congress to adopt a version of the fixed-rate payment system for hospital care to cover the post-hospital care they provide.

65.   Pain is the primary reason sickle cell patients seek hospital care, Dr. Benjamin said, adding that these patients traditionally are not given enough medicine.

66.   Part A, which covers hospital care, carries no charge for most people.

67.   Patients needing hospital care have been sent to Menorah Medical Center, although that arrangement is winding down as Kaiser seeks more hospital options.

68.   She kept a constant vigil by his bedside every time he needed hospital care, friends said.

69.   She said many employees would pay more through larger premiums, higher deductibles and increases in payments for prescription drugs, doctor visits and hospital care.

70.   Some drugs can reduce health spending by reducing the need for hospital care, economists say, but that is not true of all drugs.