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health insurance
n.
Insurance against expenses incurred through illness of the insured.
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Noun1.health insurance - insurance against loss due to ill healthhealth insurance - insurance against loss due to ill health
insurance - promise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company
hospitalization insurance, hospitalization - insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense
health maintenance organization, HMO - group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians


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The new policy is expected to be implemented by the end of the year at Illinois Blue Cross and three other Blue Cross plans operating under the Illinois plan's parent company, Chicago-based Health Care Service Corp.
None of the Blue Cross plans would allow them to come to this new facility or to Willow Creek or to Springdale under the old offering, and Wal-Mart employees live all over northwest Arkansas.
Analysts called it a warning to Blue Cross plans across the country not to try to auction themselves off to hospital chains or other well-heeled bidders outside the Blue Cross system.
 
 
 
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