How to Use underinsured in a Sentence

underinsured

adjective
  • Most of the structures were 50-or-more years old and underinsured.
    Star Tribune, 20 Dec. 2020
  • And some of the men who are catching this are either underinsured or uninsured.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The flu shots are free to adults and children over the age of 4 who are uninsured, underinsured or on Medicaid or Medicare.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The program is designed to help those who are uninsured or underinsured.
    Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The high uninsured or underinsured rate in Puerto Rico will also slow the process.
    Luis FerrÉ-SadurnÍ, Lizette Alvarez and Frances Robles, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • And even for people who are insured about a quarter of working-age adults are underinsured.
    Eleanore Catolico, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • The move would allow uninsured or underinsured children to receive the vaccines at no cost.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The hospital is also one of the largest providers of free health care in the region, and many people who are not insured or underinsured rely on its services.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • For the uninsured and underinsured, safety-net providers are available.
    Jennifer Chesak, Health.com, 7 June 2021
  • The new clinic will work with uninsured and underinsured patients and plans to develop a sliding fee scale.
    James Walsh, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
  • The county health department also provides the MMR vaccine to adults who are uninsured or underinsured for no cost or a fee of $10.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Millions of people in the United States are uninsured and millions more are underinsured.
    Eric Schneider, STAT, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Cuban told me in an email that the service is most heavily used by customers who are uninsured or underinsured or who have high deductibles.
    Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Broward Health is the primary care provider for the indigent, uninsured and underinsured living in the northern two-thirds of Broward County.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Uninsured and underinsured people can get a flu shot at the department’s health centers for between $0 and $15.
    Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 11 Oct. 2019
  • All uninsured and underinsured people should be placed on Medicare for the duration of the epidemic at least.
    Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 12 Mar. 2020
  • And this is not just an affliction of the uninsured — the underinsured are also not spared from the often-crippling burden of medical debt.
    Mike Waterbury, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The event will provide free school and sports physicals for underinsured children.
    Staff Report, Daily Southtown, 10 July 2018
  • Boehringer Ingelheim said the program will help people who are insured, as well as those who are uninsured and underinsured.
    Korin Miller Updated, Verywell Health, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Many properties are uninsured or underinsured and many of those affected haven't even found out whether their homes have survived, let alone filled out claims.
    John Quiggin For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 10 Jan. 2020
  • In the past year, the center has been getting more underinsured patients and veterans seeking services, Burleson said.
    Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Also, Amylyx intends to provide its drug at no cost to U.S. patients who are un- or underinsured.
    Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Though upheaval will certainly bring challenges for patients, most of whom are on Medicare, underinsured or uninsured, that’s not the case here.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • This isn’t just because of our 30 million uninsured citizens (and tens of millions more who are underinsured).
    Robert Pearl, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • FQHCs offer a number of health services to the underinsured and uninsured on a sliding fee scale, depending on the patient's ability to pay.
    Ginger Christ, cleveland.com, 23 June 2017
  • The assistance is for people who were uninsured or underinsured, said Mayor Doug Sprouse.
    Laurinda Joenks, Arkansas Online, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Uninsured and underinsured people will be able to access Paxlovid for free through 2028 under a Pfizer agreement.
    Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 27 Oct. 2023
  • What's next: The state's mobile health clinic, which offers childhood vaccinations to uninsured or underinsured families, is rolling across the state at various locations through late August.
    Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Stephanie Schauer, Wisconsin's immunization program manager, expects about 7,000 vaccine doses will be available to uninsured and underinsured adults statewide through the program.
    Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2024

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