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health card

British

noun

an identity card required to obtain public health insurance services

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Mr Valli added: "She then goes on to say that if she were to get arrested she would 'play the mental health card'."

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024

“The health card in my pocket is due to him.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2022

Currently, foreign residents and visitors can access basic public health care for free by paying a nominal fee for a government health card and employers are not obliged to provide additional private health insurance.

From Reuters ● Oct. 21, 2021

“Because some of his ideas differ from yours you have to throw in the mental health card? That’s just not fair.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2018

He made a photo-copy of the health card, pushed it into a pneumatic tube and handed the original to Hunter.

From The Cartels Jungle by Irving E. Cox

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