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health insurance
noun
- insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
Word History and Origins
Origin of health insurance1
Example Sentences
It has also been angered by the chaotic transition to a new social health insurance scheme, with the government owing millions of dollars to faith-based hospitals.
The program, known as 340B, requires drug makers to sell their drugs at discounts to certain healthcare providers, who then turn around and charge health insurance companies more for the drugs.
Democrats view Medicaid as a health insurance program that helps people pay for health care...Republicans view Medicaid as a government welfare program.
The agency regulates health insurance and sets policy that guides the prices that doctors, hospitals and drug companies are paid for medical services.
There are, in fact, hundreds of variables for each patient -- ranging from clinical data and brain imaging to health insurance status.
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