health insurance

1. 1.

   insurance against loss due to ill health

   Broaderinsurance

   Narrowerhospitalization insurancehealth maintenance organization

Questions about health insurance

What does health insurance mean?

health insurance means "insurance against loss due to ill health".

Is health insurance a common word?

health insurance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.