How to Use uninsured in a Sentence

uninsured

adjective
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  • About 90% of the bank's deposits were uninsured at that time.
    — Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Some 60% of those uninsured adults, by the way, are people of color.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • So many of these women were uninsured and hadn’t seen a doctor in years.
    — Dawn Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2022
  • About 18 trillion of them and about half are insured by FDIC and half are uninsured.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 16 May 2024
  • Democrats say the law has been successful in driving down the uninsured rate.
    — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 18 June 2021
  • The differences between the uninsured and the insured is stark.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 28 Aug. 2021
  • The event is open to adults with and without health insurance, and those who are uninsured can get screened for free.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The average cost of care for uninsured patients was $3,673.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Of the patients Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas saw last year, 64% were uninsured.
    — Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Even a program that pays health care providers for the testing and treatment of the uninsured will soon run out of money, per STAT.
    — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 11 Mar. 2022
  • People who are uninsured or have a high-deductible plan are still paying the full list price.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2024
  • But that’s not the case for the 25 million uninsured Americans or the 50 million who are below the poverty line.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune Well, 20 May 2024
  • 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
  • For Russia, shipping uninsured oil might be more difficult than in the case of Iran.
    — Julie Steinberg, WSJ, 7 May 2022
  • And for most uninsured patients in end-stage kidney failure, Medicare would pick up the tab.
    — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Low-cost or no-cost tests may also be available to people who are uninsured.
    — Ahjané Forbes, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2024
  • About 26 million people in the United States are uninsured.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • More than a quarter of women of childbearing age are uninsured, the highest rate in the nation.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2022
  • 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
  • And some of the men who are catching this are either underinsured or uninsured.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The center is open daily from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and offers self-pay options for uninsured patients.
    — Rose Wagner, baltimoresun.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • One person helped get the uninsured Ms. Wang medical help.
    — Hillary Chura, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • With no significant rain in sight, experts expect the damage to reach tens of billions of dollars, with much of it uninsured.
    — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 22 Jan. 2025

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