81.   Falzon is not the only business owner taking a hard look at group health coverage.

82.   Florida was one of six states, along with Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington, that had enacted formal commitments to universal health coverage.

83.   For example, local politicians have long worked toward universal health coverage.

84.   For all of that, the step-by-step approach to expanding health coverage has many defenders, who note that it has the great advantage of being politically realistic.

85.   For example, House lawmakers early on considered requiring businesses to let workers keep their employer health coverage upon retirement.

86.   Forty percent of the people in America who now live in poverty, do not have any health coverage.

87.   Franks and Corzine agree on the need for more health coverage and increased patient rights.

88.   Franks said he did not vote to cut Medicare but instead voted to reduce future spending on the program that provides health coverage for retired Americans.

89.   Frist criticized Clinton for not including structural changes to Medicare that will open the program up to more types of private health coverage.

90.   Gov. George Pataki made a promise in his State of the State address to provide health coverage to every uninsured child in a low-income family in the state.