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  • 1Health insurance — is insurance against the risk of incurring medical expenses among individuals. By estimating the overall risk of health care expenses among a targeted group, an insurer can develop a routine finance structure, such as a monthly premium or payroll …

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  • 2Health insurance in the United States — The term health insurance is commonly used in the United States to describe any program that helps pay for medical expenses, whether through privately purchased insurance, social insurance or a non insurance social welfare program funded by the… …

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  • 3Health insurance mandate — A health insurance mandate is either an employer or individual mandate to obtain private health insurance, instead of (or in addition to) a National Health Service or National Health Insurance.[1] Contents 1 United States 1.1 US States …

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  • 4Risk pool — A risk pool is one of the forms of risk management mostly practised by insurance companies. Under this system, insurance companies come together to form a pool, which can provide protection to insurance companies against catastrophe risks such as …

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  • 5National health insurance — (sometimes called statutory health insurance) is health insurance that insures a national population for the costs of health care and usually is instituted as a program of healthcare reform. It is enforced by law. It may be administered by the… …

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  • 6Health care in the Netherlands — is financed by obligatory health insurance and all insurance companies are obliged to provide a package with a defined set of insured treatments [http://www.minvws.nl/en/themes/health insurance system/ Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport ] .… …

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  • 7Health care provider — A health care provider is an individual or an institution that provides preventive, curative, promotional or rehabilitative health care services in a systematic way to individuals, families or communities. An individual health care provider (also …

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  • 8Insurance — This article is about risk management. For Insurance (blackjack), see Blackjack. For Insurance run (baseball), see Insurance run. In law and economics, insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a… …

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  • 9insurance — /in shoor euhns, sherr /, n. 1. the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one s person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a… …

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  • 10insurance — A contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, one party undertakes to compensate the other for loss on a specified subject by specified perils. The party agreeing to make the compensation is usually called the insurer or underwriter; the… …

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