1.   During his term as hospital chairman, he established a trust fund for indigent care.

2.   In the old days, private insurance subsidized hospital costs for indigent care.

3.   It contributes almost nothing to indigent care.

4.   It is probably asking too much for Pataki to use general tax revenues to pay for indigent care and medical education.

5.   Some of his advisers would have preferred to cover more of the cost of indigent care and medical training by also taxing insurers.

6.   Some private hospitals still decline to train residents, and some institutions provide no indigent care.

7.   Suggestions for fixes range from outright increases in funding for indigent care to tax credits for doctors who provide uncompensated care.

8.   Teaching hospitals also use residents to treat the poor, so that a loss of money to train residents diminishes money for indigent care.

9.   The city would not contribute any money to operation of the hospital unless the proportion of indigent care rises to extremely high levels.

10.   The governor or legislators have not settled the formulas that will determine how much money hospitals can draw for indigent care and training.