sicker
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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 • Mar. 30, 2026
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 • Mar. 2, 2026
Ergo, insurers must be coding them as being sicker than they are.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
Those who lose health insurance will skip medications and primary care and subsequently get sicker and end up in the emergency room, explained Goel.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2026
So as the story goes on, she gets sicker, the treatments and disease racing to kill her, and her mom falls in love with this Dutch tulip trader Anna calls the Dutch Tulip Man.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
