Medicaid, the federal-state program for poor people, covers most prescription drugs.
And it has driven up the cost of Medicaid, the federal-state program for the poor.
The apartments are subsidized under the Mitchell Lama Housing Program, a state program for middle-income residents.
She and her husband, Hugh, 40, remain uninsured; their son received coverage under a state program for uninsured children.
Medicaid surpassed higher education as the second-biggest state program in 1990, and in 2003 it became largest state program for the first time.
For those who cannot obtain benefits under the 1986 law, Mr. Baucus and Mr. Kennedy would authorize coverage through Medicaid, the federal-state program for low-income people.
He could mobilize city agencies to encourage more people to enroll in a newly expanded state program for low-income New Yorkers -- Child Health Plus and Family Health Plus.
Expanding Medicaid, a joint federal-state program for the poor, is critical to the law's goal of covering the nation's 48 million uninsured.
Moreover, since the Supreme Court upheld the new health care law in June, Mr. Obama has become skittish about cutbacks in Medicaid, the federal-state program for low-income people.
Mr. Blanco said his tuition of nearly $3,000 a year was being paid by a state program for low-income students.
A federal district judge ruled that the children were entitled to care under Medicaid, the federal-state program for low-income people.
