Patients would enroll voluntarily, but could be locked into one of the arrangements for six months or a year.

The bottom line is that 4.8 million students voluntarily enrolled in community, technical and junior colleges last fall.

Would everyone voluntarily enroll in a health plan?

In addition, about 375,000 city Medicaid recipients have voluntarily enrolled in managed care plans since 1991.

He said it was fine for the Government to give elderly people incentives to enroll voluntarily in health-maintenance organizations.

In the meantime, she said, the city plans to work toward enrolling voluntarily as many Medicaid patients into managed care as possible.

It will also triple the number of city students who may voluntarily enroll in some type of magnet or suburban school program.

About 280 of the school's 530 students have voluntarily enrolled in this class, which is offered to kindergartners through fifth graders as a lunch time activity.

About 95,000 recipients have already enrolled voluntarily.

I also called on the Federal Reserve to require that banks give consumers the option to enroll in overdraft programs voluntarily.