Since health costs vary dramatically based on demographics, insurers are going to be "cherry-picking" healthier customers and trying to drive sicker ones away with terrible service and harrassive behavior.
My mom was always cooking dinners for people who were sick, and she was the one who drove sick aunts or neighbors to doctors.
The sanctions it imposes on claimants are not only justifiable punishments for shirkers, but cudgels to drive the sick and the unfortunate off benefits.
We learn that he is remarkably tidy in person and, in his work, rapid but tardy, and we are told that he loathes mathematics, cannot drive, is sick of jazz, "rarely touches gin or whiskey but is extremely fond of Château Yquem," and "has been in love ninety-two tines in all and remembers each of the girls' names".
Though flu cases in New York City are rising rapidly, the city health department has no plans to declare an emergency, largely because of concern that doing so would drive mildly sick people to emergency rooms, said Dr. Jay K. Varma, deputy director for disease control.
On that Tuesday, she arose at 6 30 a.m. to drive a sick friend to the doctor.
"Their benefits will be designed to drive away sick people with chronic conditions … the population that will choose these policies will have to be very healthy," Anderson wrote.
At the time, we thought Hevesi was a nice, sort of nebbishy guy who had gone way overboard in using a state car and chauffeur to drive his sick wife around.
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