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health insurance

American  

noun

  1. insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.


Etymology

Origin of health insurance

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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Every bit counts when health insurance swallows up so much of the budget.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

The company reinsures both property and casualty and life and health insurance policies, and does business in more than 20 countries.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

But my family’s health insurance, supplied by their labor union, wouldn’t cover care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where I had 33 radiation treatments.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

While the drop was partly due to policy-related price adjustments in areas, such as health insurance, the April print will likely reassure the Monetary Authority of Singapore that inflation expectations are stable, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Soon she was working fifty hours a week and making enough to cover health insurance for herself and Zachary.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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