Insurers are also limited in what they can charge older customers, and they are not allowed to turn away sick people or charge them more.

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He hopes that he can design clinical trials to understand potential risks as early as possible, and plans to aim his drugs at patients who are very sick--so that even if side effects turn up, the medicines will remain useful.

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Webb found that industry experts felt that the best way to turn a profit was to create a toy that children would get sick of within a week or so.

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Chavez, in turn, has said the recent murders were the product of a sick society twisted by capitalism, and has accused his enemies of trying to jump on the issue for political gain.

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Everywhere I turn, I hear that unless radiation levels get improbably high, nobody will get sick, as if acute radiation sickness is the only consequence of exposure.

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The sick gather strength from the help and good wishes of relatives and friends, who, in turn, are strengthened by the courage of the afflicted.

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