SALISBURY

What she says:

* Opposes Medicaid cuts that would cost hospitals millions of dollars annually for treating low-income and uninsured patients.

* Provide tax credits to individuals and families for health insurance costs, similar to tax benefits that go to businesses that provide health insurance to employees.

* Wants funding of the National Institutes of Health increased by $3 billion.

What she's done:

* Served as president of the American Red Cross from 1991-99.

* Supported legislation that added a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program.

PETE Di LAURO

WELDON

What he says:

* Let free market fix the health-care system.

* Regulate more strictly how much profit insurance companies would be allowed to make.

What he's done:

* Worked as an orderly in a Brooklyn hospital's intensive care unit in the 1970s.