 City spending then rose 6.3 percent a year, above the inflation rate, and the city payroll increased again, especially for police officers and teachers.In 2000 Giuliani initiated what the "New York Post" called "a massive program" to get city employees to expand the number of low-income, uninsured children and adults covered by public health entitlement programs such as Medicaid, Child Health Plus and Family Health Plan.Promoting enrollment in his HealthStat program, Giuliani said at the time that the program could be "a model for the rest of this country for how to get people covered on the available health programs."