Or they can relax standards for big, publicly funded centers, thereby exposing children to shoddy care.

Certainly not the shoddy, lackadaisical care I received.

Similar accounts of shoddy care circulate in retirement villages and nursing homes, where many people have become attached to their longtime doctors.

They said Mr. Bush was standing up for the interests of doctors and insurers at the expense of patients who receive shoddy care or worse.

Anders devotes a whole chapter to examples of "shoddy care" in states, primarily Tennessee, that have steered their Medicaid clients into HMOs.

But critics contend that large cuts in mental-health-care spending by Mr. Pataki helped cause the shoddy care that led to the tragedy.

Mr. Aiken says shoddy medical care has prolonged his suffering.

And if you're a woman, you're more likely to pay higher insurance premiums than men for this shoddy care.

After all, Ingram championed excellence as ruthlessly as he ferreted out shoddy care.

She faced eviction from her Flatbush apartment and shoddy medical care when I wrote about her on July 16, 2000.