health insurance

insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.

Origin of health insurance

First recorded in 1900–05

How far will a health-insurance company go to deny coverage when you are really sick?

My Insurance Company Killed Me, Despite Obamacare |Malcolm MacDougall |November 24, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Republican presidents had (if we go back to 1984) 16 years to pass some kind of health-insurance law.

The GOP’s 20-Year War on Health Care |Michael Tomasky |July 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Acting entirely out of self-interest, the U.S. health-insurance industry ultimately supported the Affordable Care Act.

The Insurance Industry’s Liberal Turn |Daniel Gross |July 10, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
A country where health-insurance companies treat them differently because they are women.

Women, Don’t Be Fooled: Mitt Romney Will End Safe and Legal Abortion |Dawn Laguens |October 12, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

He looped in his health-insurance colleague Fred McKay and, sure enough, I could buy insurance without underwriting.

The Non-Problem that ObamaCare Didn't Fix |Megan McArdle |September 19, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
We do it by providing a health-insurance tax credit of up to $3750 for each low-income family.

Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2006 |Various

health insurance

Insurance against expenses incurred through illness of the insured.