sicker
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Experts in healthcare economics say rural hospitals like Glenn Medical generally have fewer patients than suburban and urban communities, and those patients tend to be older and sicker, meaning they are more expensive to treat.
From Los Angeles Times
Insurers have responded by implementing substantial premium increases for 2026 in an effort to restore viability, but the business remains far from attractive to investors because the enrollee pool is becoming sicker and smaller.
Patients that do enroll in the plans will likely be sicker on average, raising medical costs for the companies.
From Barron's
The result: An older, sicker risk pool on the ObamaCare exchanges, which would push up premiums and exacerbate the structural problems that prompted Democrats to sweeten the subsidies in the first place.
That is because CMS pays higher rates for sicker patients, and insurers that coordinate their care more efficiently get to keep more of that money.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
