How to Use uninsured in a Sentence

uninsured

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  • The average cost of care for uninsured patients was $3,673.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • People with Medicare and those who are uninsured will most likely be charged for at-home tests, as well.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The big question, Levitt said, is how many of the millions of people dropped from Medicaid are now uninsured.
    — Phil Galewitz, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Police said the teen, who was uninjured in the crash, was uninsured, according to the Daily.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The boost in enrollment comes as the number of uninsured Americans this year reached a historic low of 8%.
    — Amanda Seitz, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • That change is aimed at helping people who are uninsured or who have to pay the list price of insulin while their plans are in a high-deductible phase.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Not to mention people who are uninsured and can’t afford health care.
    — Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • This single customer parked over $3 billion of uninsured funds with them.
    — Mark T. Williams, Fortune, 21 June 2023
  • But other banks may have to help defray the cost of covering uninsured deposits.
    — Christopher Rugaber, ajc, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The funds required to stabilize the two banks will come from fees paid by banks to the FDIC and will be used to secure uninsured deposits by account holders.
    — Shira Stein, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Other bad actors receive the 340B discount but do not pass the savings on to uninsured patients.
    — Bill Cassidy, STAT, 5 July 2023
  • The state’s banks have nowhere near the high rate of uninsured deposits, around 90%, seen at Silicon Valley and Signature banks, Schmidt said.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The region, where more than half of the nation's Black population lives, has high rates of uninsured patients and poverty.
    — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Such deposits are unlikely to be left hanging around, as they are uninsured.
    — David Benoit, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Just how did the city’s public hospitals, which serve as a safety net for the poor and uninsured, come to be in possession of such a collection?
    — Winnie Hu, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The result: more than two million more Americans were left uninsured.
    — Wendy E. Parmet, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2022
  • For years, Texas has been a laggard in signing up residents on HealthCare.gov, despite leading the nation in the number of uninsured.
    — Dallas News, 13 Oct. 2022
  • But like banks, some credit unions also have uninsured deposits.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Ian was the most expensive storm ever to hit the state, including $17 billion in uninsured losses.
    — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In addition to tax, the restaurant tacked on a 20% service fee, plus 5% that goes toward health care for uninsured city residents.
    — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2023
  • For uninsured patients, the percentage was higher, at 42%.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 26 May 2023
  • Both of these departments are likely to offer free or low-cost Pap smears to low-income and/or uninsured people.
    — Elizabeth Boskey, Verywell Health, 27 June 2023
  • At Silicon Valley Bank, more than 85% of its deposits were uninsured, according to news reports at the time of the bank's failure.
    — Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Millions are uninsured, others can’t afford their share of the cost, and many live in communities where eye doctors are scarce.
    — Bernard J. Wolfson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The move would allow uninsured or underinsured children to receive the vaccines at no cost.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • For the uninsured, CGMs can be nearly impossible to afford.
    — AZCentral.com, 15 Sep. 2022
  • To make matters worse, the ranks of uninsured and underinsured Americans grew further in the early days of the pandemic.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
  • And because most of the hospital’s patients are on Medicaid or uninsured, taxpayers foot the bill.
    — Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Insured people will be able to get the vaccine at no cost, and uninsured children will be able to get the vaccine for free through the federal Vaccines for Children program.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The tally did not include damage to uninsured property.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023

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