People, in general, are sicker more often (and diagnosed more often) than in past decades.
That, in turn, could mean it would attract a sicker population, driving up costs.
Beneficiaries, who are sicker than folks in an average insurance pool, could dominate the exchanges.
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If the exchanges are favored by sicker patients, this outcome will occur even sooner.
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Indeed, the Ryan plan provides for higher payments to the insurers for sicker seniors.
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This means that those who buy insurance are somewhat sicker than the general population.
The result will be insurance pools that are smaller and sicker, and therefore more expensive.
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Studies show even white, insured, college-educated Americans are sicker than their peers in Europe.
The new Obamacare rules let companies charge just three times more for older, and often sicker clients.
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And it's not as if New York's population were any sicker than the rest of the country's.
Do we fear that measuring more will make us sicker rather than anticipate crises before they occur?
Glasgow came out sicker, even when its residents were richer and better educated than their continental peers.
Instead, the study tracked patients from a national database--and the patients who got the drug-coated stents were sicker.
Also, in the real world, patients are sicker, older, have more coexisting conditions than the patients in trials.
There is concern that if Greece does default, countries like Ireland, Portugal and Spain may become economically sicker.
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"We often see people that are even sicker right in the city than in the jungle, " she said.
It says there is no evidence supporting the drug in off-label uses, such as in sicker or healthier patients.
But they are getting sicker because of staff shortages and because infection control is not a high enough priority.
But still, this is a company that makes a non-discretionary product, where business gets better when people get sicker.
Even so, Fleming has been dogged by allegations he finessed the evidence to make clients look sicker than they are.
"We shouldn't jump to the conclusion that more people are getting sicker in these geographic areas than previously, " he said.
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So Golden State residents better hope that they have healthy neighbors, because the sicker the area, the higher the premiums.
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More would be paid as well for those who were sicker so that plans could finance their more expensive care.
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This will result in an even sicker population being left in the small group marketplace, and higher premiums as a result.
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Meanwhile patients who unknowingly take counterfeit drugs often are poisoned or get sicker because they're not receiving what the doctor prescribed.
The health plans were banking on lots of young, healthy individuals entering the exchanges, to subsidize older, and perhaps sicker members.
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Greece and the other Mediterranean countries in the euro area Spain, Portugal and even Italy nowadays seem to be sicker than ex-communist Europe.
That is not bad news for insurers in itself, but bad behaviour is making customers fatter and sicker as they age.
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He grew sicker, and apparently, the strep infection eventually attacked the valves of his heart, a condition known as rheumatic heart disease.
If we overreact to everything we actually get sicker and perhaps eczema.
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