sicker
Example Sentences
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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
The very sound of that stuff gurgling made me sicker than ever.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
