Risk pools would be overloaded with sick people whose claims would drive up premiums for everyone, forcing out more and more healthy buyers.
Hospitals will be overrun with sick highly contagious people whom they cannot help and existing patients needing operations, dialysis or help with complicated childbirth will suffer.
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Mr Evans said while nothing could be done about people off sick with flu for example, stress could be tackled.
This is especially true, because we just made it so that if they someday get sick, they are assured they can get insurance, and they won't be penalized for being sick with higher rates.
Businesses with fewer than five employees would be eligible to take five unpaid sick days with job protection.
Those with fewer workers would be required to offer at least five unpaid sick days with job protection.
With insufficient numbers of healthy people (the young) to balance the insurance pools, the pools have filled up with people more likely to be sick, putting the pools way out of balance.
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That's because plans in New York are priced with the assumption that you must be sick or you wouldn't need health insurance.
Thirty-three percent of employees played hooky last year and, rather than come clean with their bosses, they pretended to be sick.
Professor GARY SICK (Columbia University): It's good to be with you, Steve.
We could hope, as we listened, that on this great issue, like others demanding answers now -- bringing our fiscal house in order, restoring equality of opportunity to our economy, ending our country's sick obsession with guns -- that future Inaugural addresses would be able to note the kind of material progress that we have seen with regard to combating racism or ending wars.
With many pop stars, that would be the moment to reach for the sick-bucket.
Simdax, which is given in the hospital when patients are extremely sick, never reduced mortality by a large enough margin compared with dobutamine to be sure the results weren't due to chance, but there was a consistent trend toward a benefit.
If someone becomes sick -- either physically or mentally -- the crew has to be ready to cope with that, too.
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In addition, pregnant women infected with H1N1 were four times as likely as sick people in the general population to be hospitalized for it, she said.
If there is a mechanical problem with a plane, or a pilot is sick, then chances are the flight will be canceled.
"I call Europe the sick child of the world nowadays because there are so many issues that have to be addressed -- starting with budget deficits (and) public spending -- that need to be addressed quite seriously, " said Levy.
It suggested large hospitals should be reserved for those with life-threatening conditions or needing complex care instead of being a dumping ground for the sick and frail.
Claims were made that could not be supported by research evidence, particularly on the safety of transferring sick patients between hospitals, and other claims were made with no evidence offered in support.
Diabetes patients may be active and otherwise healthy, but "on the other end of the spectrum are very frail, sick older patients with other major health problems, " says panel member Jeffrey Halter, director of the geriatrics center at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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