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Definition: Health Insurance |
Health InsuranceNoun1. Insurance against loss due to ill health. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Labor | Insurance plans that include coverage for medical care, dental care, and vision care. (references) |
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Synonyms: Health InsuranceSynonyms: Medical insurance, Prepaid health plans, Prepaid medical care, Socialized medicine, Voluntary health insurance. (additional references) |
Crosswords: Health Insurance |
| English words defined with "health insurance": Medicare. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "health insurance": Alternative Measures of income ♦ Blue Cross, Blue Shield ♦ DIRECTOR, CAMP ♦ Expenditures ♦ Financing, Personal ♦ Health Benefit Plans, Employee, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Coverage, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ♦ Inclusion of health insurance in child support award, income capital certificate, Insurance, Hospitalization, Insurance, Long-Term Care, Insurance, Surgical ♦ major medical insurance, major medical plan, maternity benefit, Medical care coverage, MEDICAL RECORD TECHNICIAN, Medically Uninsured, MEDICAL-RECORD ADMINISTRATOR, Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B ♦ National Health Insurance Program, National Health Programs, net worth certificate, nurse, staff, industria, NURSE, STAFF, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING ♦ SPECIAL AGENT, GROUP INSURANCE ♦ welfare plans. (references) |
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Lyrics | Health insurance rip off lying FDA big bankers buying ("You Get What You Give"; performing artist: New Radicals) | |
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Health | Carefully read your health insurance policy. (references) | |
If you have health insurance, find out exactly what it will cover. (references) | ||
Some health insurance policies cover the cost of a hairpiece needed because of cancer treatment. (references) | ||
Business | A combined health insurance and budgetary system funds healthcare in Poland. (references) | |
These will be allowed to provide health insurance to both Chinese and foreign clients. (references) | ||
Employer payments for mandatory health insurance are excluded from their taxable income. (references) | ||
Children | Taiwan | Children also are provided health care under the national health insurance scheme. (references) |
Switzerland | It amply funds a system of public education and need-based subsidies of health insurance. (references) | |
Turkey | The social security system aims to provide social security and health insurance for all its citizens, but there are still gaps in this coverage, leaving approximately 20 percent of families and their children without coverage, according to a 2000 UNICEF report on "The State of Women and Children in Turkey." Persons not covered by insurance may use a special program to access public health care. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Lithuania | Both traditional and state recognized communities can receive state subsidies; they do not have to pay social and health insurance for clergy and other employees; their clergy and theological students are exempt from military service; and they are not subject to tax on such services as electricity, telephone, and heat. (references) |
Economic History | Ukraine | A long awaited health insurance reform is expected in the near future. (references) |
India | Companies planning to enter the health insurance market are Reliance and Cigna. (references) | |
Political Economy | AUSTRIA | Separate from the issue of licensing is the issue of approval of pharmaceuticals for reimbursement under Austrian health insurance regulations. (references) |
Kuwait | However, the National Assembly has passed legislation in April 2000, which imposes health insurance fees and requires employers to cover expatriate laborers. (references) | |
AUSTRIA | The Austrian social insurance association, "Hauptverband der Sozialversicherungstraeger," decides which products are approved for reimbursement by health insurance plans. (references) | |
Trade | Taiwan | Under Taiwan's national health insurance system, the government is effectively the exclusive buyer for all medical products and services in Taiwan. (references) |
Austria | According to critics, the non-transparent procedures by which the Hauptverband approves drugs for reimbursement under Austrian health insurance regulations has perpetuated a closed market system favoring established suppliers. (references) | |
Travel | Qatar | It should be noted that health insurance is not a common practice in Qatar. (references) |
Women | Jordan | Current laws and regulations governing health insurance for civil servants do not permit women to extend their health insurance coverage to dependents or spouses. (references) |
Bolivia | The Maternal and Infant Health Insurance Program provides health services, focused on maternal and infant health, to women of reproductive age and to children under the age of 5. Women generally do not enjoy a social status equal to that of men. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Kuwait | No health insurance system exists. (references) |
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | In the financial provisions we must reconcile the actuarial needs of social security, including health insurance, with the requirements of a revenue system that is designed to promote a high level of consumption and full employment. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | I now urge that its coverage be extended without further delay to provide health insurance for the elderly. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | But I do envision the day when we may use the private health insurance system to offer more middle-income families high quality health services at prices they can afford and shield them also from their catastrophic illnesses. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | National Health Insurance, Welfare Reform, Child Health Assessment Program, are before the Congress and I urge their passage. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Forty million Americans still lack health insurance. |
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Expressions using "health insurance": health insurance company ♦ Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ♦ National Health Insurance Program. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
health insurance | 20,764 |
health insurance quote | 1,263 |
health insurance individual | 992 |
affordable health insurance | 813 |
health insurance company | 728 |
student health insurance | 579 |
group health insurance | 516 |
health insurance lead | 508 |
cheap health insurance | 476 |
health insurance plan | 464 |
tennessee health insurance | 460 |
health insurance california | 450 |
self employed health insurance | 433 |
oregon health insurance | 420 |
health insurance indiana | 389 |
low cost health insurance | 384 |
temporary health insurance | 380 |
travel health insurance | 342 |
long term care health insurance | 337 |
health insurance iowa | 331 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "health insurance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | التأمين الصحي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sygeforsikring (sickness insurance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ziekteverzekering (sickness insurance, sickness scheme), ziektekostenverzekering (medical insurance, medical insurance scheme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sairausvakuutus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | assurance-maladie, assurance maladie, assurance frais de maladie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | krankenversicherung (medical insurance, Sickness Insurance, sickness scheme), krankenkasse (health insurance company, medical insurance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασφάλιση ασθένειας (sickness insurance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | betegségi biztosítás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | assicurazione malattia (sickness insurance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 健康保険 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | け""うほけ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ealthhay insuranceay seguro de doença (sickness insurance). (various references) zdravstveno osiguranje. (various references) seguro de enfermedad (Medicaid, sickness insurance). (various references) sjukförsäkring. (various references) hastalık sigortası (sick insurance, sickness insurance), sağlık sigortası (medicare, sick insurance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-h-i-l-n-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: neurasthenia, neurasthenic. | |
-4 letters: anthracenes, antinuclear, chatelaines, intercensal, renunciates, unhealthier. | |
-5 letters: anthelices, anthracene, autarchies, calentures, cantilenas, carnelians, catenaries, centaureas, centauries, centralise, channelers, chatelaine, chatelains, earthshine, enchanters, enunciates, euthanasic, eutherians, hatcheries, heartaches, incarnates, interlaces, intrenches, lacustrine, linecaster, naturalise, nectarines, neutralise, raunchiest, rechannels, relaunches, renunciate, retinacula, thearchies, transience, uncleanest, unclearest. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 6C 74 68 49 6E 73 75 72 61 6E 63 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01101100 01110100 01101000 00100000 01001001 01101110 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a l t h   I n s u r a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 006C 0074 0068 0049 006E 0073 0075 0072 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271677886742438085878467806971 |
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