major medical

noun

1. insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.

Word History and Origins

Origin of major medical¹

First recorded in 1950–55; ellipsis of major medical expense insurance plan

Example Sentences

In a state that hadn’t banned abortion, Barnica could have immediately been offered the options that major medical organizations, including international ones, say is the standard of evidence-based care: speeding up labor with medication or a dilation and evacuation procedure to empty the uterus.

From Salon

Those include two major medical facilities and also hospitals that offer such specialized medical care as obstetrics, paediatrics and oncology.

From Salon

Israeli authorities have repeatedly alleged that hospitals are fronts for Hamas fighters and that health care workers may themselves be militants, including the claim, according to the U.N. report, that over 85% of major medical facilities in Gaza were used for terror operations by Hamas.

From Salon

Study co-author Dr. S. Jay Olshansky, a public health professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, attributes the increased longevity observed throughout most of the 20th Century to major medical advances like antibiotics and vaccines that saved young people, in particular.

From Salon

Over the course of the day, corpses and mangled limbs recovered from the rubble were wrapped in blankets, stacked in truck beds and driven to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the last major medical facility still operating in central Gaza.

From New York Times

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