private health insurance

noun

1. insurance against the need for medical treatment as a private patient

Example Sentences

She wants private health insurance for Tamara and dreams of buying a car one day, to take her to medical appointments.

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The rest of the ad advocates for premium tax credits, a provision of the Affordable Care Act, that enables the federal government to partially subsidize the cost of private health insurance.

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There are currently no caps on how much private specialists, dentists or hospitals can charge and neither private health insurance nor slim Medicare rebates reliably offer substantial relief.

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A study by Harvard researchers found that fewer than 1% adolescents with private health insurance received either puberty blockers or hormone treatments.

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In the course of doing this, Emanuel repeatedly attacked the idea of replacing private health insurance with a “Medicare for All” system, calling it a “pipe dream” and writing, “I’m mystified as to why, at a moment when 90 percent of Americans already have insurance, our presidential debates are focused so exclusively on expanding coverage rather than containing costs.”

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