sicker
Example Sentences
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In the current system, premiums are calculated by assessing the full pool of enrollees, including those who are older and sicker and tend to spend more on medical care.
From MarketWatch
Typically, as health-insurance costs rise, healthier people are the most likely to forgo insurance, leaving a sicker, more costly pool of policyholders.
Those insurers receive a fixed monthly amount that tends to be higher for sicker beneficiaries that are expected to incur higher healthcare costs.
Once I became sick and leaned over the side of the sled and was violently ill and the dogs turned and came back to eat it, which made me sicker.
From Literature
Since Medicare pays private insurers a set amount per member, the risk-adjusted model ensures companies don’t selectively choose healthy people by paying them more for sicker patients.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
