And sicker of politicians and the media stoking the fires of self-righteous nationalism.
Cuts risk making the staff even sicker than the patients.
Intuitively this would appear to be reasonable, and many women anecdotally have found they were sicker with girls than with boys – but you can't depend on anecdotal evidence, I'm afraid.
Demand for health services will rise as Obamacare expands insurance and Americans grow older, fatter and sicker.
For lack of timely preventive measures, the uninsured get sicker than they need to and cost more to treat.
That could leave companies with a sicker, less productive workforce.
Scotland has an older, sicker population than the rest of Britain and the nationalist promise to increase NHS spending without also raising taxes or squandering Scotland's dwindling oil revenues is incredible.
Virologists would dearly like to know why some people become sicker than others, and why the pattern of the disease varies (diarrhoea, for example, was more common in one particular outbreak than in others).One intriguing possibility is raised by a paper published online in the Lancet on April 29th.
The pool of the insured gets sicker and sicker, premiums rise higher and higher, this in turn makes healthy people even more reluctant to buy insurance (the famous adverse-selection death spiral), and ultimately you end up with middle-class people unable to afford insurance at all.
AS JAPAN'S economy gets sicker, so the calls for a radical approach to resuscitation get louder.
Underperforming surgeons have begun to emulate the more successful: between 2001 and 2008, the proportion of patients who survived heart surgery increased significantly, even though the same surgeons were treating ever sicker people.
