health care

Noun
  1. Social insurance for the ill and injured (synset 101090781)
    is a type of: social insurance - government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people; financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue
    subtypes:
    • medicare - health care for the aged; a federally administered system of health insurance available to persons aged 65 and over
    • medicaid - health care for the needy; a federally and state-funded program
    • primary health care - health care that is provided by a health care professional in the first contact of a patient with the health care system
  2. The preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession (synset 101061824)
    is a type of: aid, attention, care, tending - the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
    same as: healthcare

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