hospitalization insurance
- noun
- /ˌhɒspɪtəlɪˈzeɪʃən ɪnˈʃʊərəns/
- US
:
seguro de hospitalización
- Instead, companies began offering fringe benefits, and hospitalization insurance became a popular job perk.
Examples
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Canada's hospitalization insurance offers fairly comprehensive inpatient coverage.
Academic text (1996) -
The provinces administer their hospitalization insurance plans in different fashions.
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As with hospitalization insurance, Canadians pay no deductibles or copayments.
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As stated, Canada's federal government provided almost 50 percent matching funds for provincial health expenditures for both hospitalization insurance and physicians' care insurance.
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Some of the services certain provinces exclude from their hospitalization insurance programs include: custodial nursing home care, inpatient mental healthcare, certain drugs, some dental and optometry services, and private hospital rooms.
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Millinocket - Maine's highest court has upheld a Millinocket Town Council vote to cut lifelong life and group hospitalization insurance coverage for 29 town workers and retirees.
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Many employees appreciate their hospitalization insurance because it significantly reduces the cost of unexpected medical bills.
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Before starting her new job, she reviewed the details of the hospitalization insurance offered by the company.
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Having good hospitalization insurance can make a big difference during a lengthy hospital stay.
Synonyms
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3.9
Insurance that pays all or part of the cost of a hospital stay
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'hospitalization' refers to a hospital stay and 'insurance' refers to financial coverage, so together they straightforwardly mean insurance that covers hospital stays. This is a productive noun–noun compound following common English patterns and has clear parallels in many languages, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The compound hospitalization insurance comes from the idea of hospitalization, meaning being in a hospital, and insurance, meaning a plan that helps pay costs. So it means a plan that pays for or helps with the bills from a 'hospital stay'.