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1Private healthcare — or private medicine is healthcare and medicine provided by entities other than the government. The term is generally used more in Europe and other countries which have publicly funded health care, to differentiate the arrangement from the usual… …
2Private Health Services Plan — A Private Health Services Plan (PHSP) is a tax free vehicle for financing the healthcare costs of employees. They were introduced in 1989 by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) in their interpretation bulletin entitled IT 339R2. [IT 339R2 Meaning of… …
3Private defense agency — A private defense agency (PDA) is a conceptualized agency that provides personal protection and military defense services voluntarily through the free market. A PDA is not a private contractor of the state and is not subsidised in any way through …
4Private hospital — A private hospital is a hospital owned by a for profit company or a non profit organisation and privately funded through payment for medical services by patients themselves, by insurers, or by foreign embassies. This practice is very common in… …
5Private Mortgage Insurance - PMI — A policy provided by private mortgage insurers to protect lenders against loss if a borrower defaults. Most lenders require PMI for loans with loan to value (LTV) percentages in excess of 80%. This allows the borrower to make a smaller down… …
6Motor Insurers' Bureau — Type Private Industry Motor insurance Founded 1946 Headquarters Linford Wood House, Stantonbury, England, UK Key people Ashton West, Chief Executive …
7go private — ► FINANCE, STOCK MARKET if a company whose shares are traded on a stock market goes private, the owners buy the shares back from other shareholders in order to take control of the company themselves: »The Canadian utility company is well on its… …
8insurance — /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… …
9Socialized medicine — is a term used to describe a system for providing medical and hospital care for all at a nominal cost by means of government regulation of health services and subsidies derived from taxation.[1] It is used primarily and usually pejoratively in… …
10Health care reform debate in the United States — See also: Health care reform in the United States, Health care in the United States, and Uninsured in the United States Health care in the United States Public health care Federal Employees Health Benefits Program Indian Health Service… …
