Because if only sick people buy insurance, but insurers are forced to accept all comers and charge healthy and sick people the same rate, insurance would rapidly become too expensive for anyone to afford.
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The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to sell policies to all comers, old and young, healthy and sick.
Insurance works best, Summers argued, when everyone, healthy and sick, is pooled together and minimum benefits are mandated.
How then should we go about making it so people buy health insurance whether they are healthy or sick?
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Would that be fair to those people who intend to pay into the system every month, healthy or sick?
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One part of the bill that kicked in last month was supposed to force insurers take all kids healthy or sick.
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In winter of course healthy and sick ash trees are difficult to tell apart as the leaves will all have fallen to the ground.
Like previous suits over silicone breast implants, electromagnetic radiation and the anti-nausea drug Bendectin, it is being kept alive by a handful of experts who are willing to contradict mainstream scientists to say that mold can make otherwise healthy people sick.
Using automated sequencing machines from Perkin-Elmer, DeCode sequenced the DNA from the healthy and the sick to locate the gene.
But it still could be a virtually useless test if it wrongly labels all sort of healthy people as sick.
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The legislation forces insurers to take all customers, sick and healthy.
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Unlike human fishing techniques, which tend not to discriminate between sick and healthy specimens, sharks are selective: they target weakened prey, thereby keeping fish populations healthy and strengthening the gene pool.
In some cases, we take animals who are healthy and we make them sick so we can study them, and that, obviously, is a lot more ethically complicated.
The Financial Supervisory Commission, the new banking watchdog, will sort out sick banks from healthy ones by September and may liquidate a couple of merchant banks and stockbrokers.
In fact, you are so healthy we have to make you sick, " " Forbes said.
Since the law requires insurance companies to accept all comers, even people who are already sick, it requires healthy people to buy coverage as well.
Health insurers fear that if the mandate is struck down but the rest of the law survives, they would be forced to accept millions more sick customers without enough new healthy customers to balance out the risk pool.
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Healthy economies lead to peace and prosperity, sick economies lead to chaos and disaster.
They are usually given to healthy people who, if they later fall sick, may blame the jab.
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It does not make sense to not treat sick people in order to prevent healthy athletes from cheating.
Although the population as a whole was no less healthy, the number of long-term sick rose from about 300, 000 in 1992 to more than 750, 000 last year.
Thus, requiring an insurer to sell policies to people more likely to get sick, without the requirement that healthy people participate, will necessarily cause the insurance pools to fail, leaving health insurance companies to flee the business even faster than their inevitable exit due to their business model no longer being viable.
The end result is that many healthy people opt out, leaving a small pool of sick individuals with very high premiums.
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Davos Man and Woman are not only wealthy but healthy too, which is clearly much better than being sick and poor.
Vaccinating a healthy baby may not seem as urgent as treating a sick patient, but the long-term costs of not doing so are incalculable.
Because they are given to healthy people to prevent disease, rather than to the sick to cure them, only the mildest side-effects are acceptable.
Unless everyone is forced to carry health insurance, healthy people will refuse to buy it until they get sick, precipitating a free rider crisis that would ruin insurers.
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Now that is upside down and backwards and I'm going to change it because I think it's time we focused on keeping people healthy, not just on treating them when they become sick.
On the other hand, is it really a problem that sick people have to pay more for insurance than healthy people?
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D.s and 75 veterinarians test drugs in preclinical development on healthy rodents (looking for toxic side effects)and on sick ones (looking for cures).
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