Another study, by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, estimated that 59 percent of uninsured adults have been uninsured for at least two years.

Diane Rowland, executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, said: "We are in a time of transition and turmoil in welfare.

Medicaid spending grew nearly 13 percent last year while state revenue fell 6 percent, according to the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.

He is Chairman of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.

She has directed the Kaiser Commission since 1991 and overseen the Foundation's health policy work since 1993.

But Diane Rowland, executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, sees the trend more ominously.

A recent study for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured showed enrollment in the new children's health insurance program in various states.

As Diane Rowland, executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, said, "it's thought of as a poor people's program."

President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Mr. Weiner to the Kaiser Commission on Urban Housing.

In New York, it is $1,615.64, the highest in the nation, according to the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid.