health insurance
noun
health insurance is a noun meaning “Insurance against incurring medical expenses among individuals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-E-A-L-T-H-I-N-S-U-R-A-N-C-E. The plural of health insurance is health insurances.
What does health insurance mean?
noun
- 1
Insurance against incurring medical expenses among individuals.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce health insurance?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-health_insurance.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of health insurance
- health insurances plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Health insurance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense insurance against incurring medical expenses among individuals:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | assurance maladie |
| German | Krankenversicherung |
| Portuguese | plano de saúde |
| Spanish | seguro de salud, aseguración médica |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does health insurance come from?
From health + insurance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).