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Health Insurance is what people use to help offset the bill when going to see a doctor. In the United States, Health Insurance is a very hot topic button. Many Doctors favor health insurance, while low-income people want a government sponsored one.

Health insurance is insurance that pays for medical expenses. It is sometimes used more broadly to include insurance covering disability or long-term nursing or custodial care needs. It may be provided through a government-sponsored social insurance program, or from private insurance companies.

Before the development of medical expense insurance, patients were expected to pay all other health care costs out of their own pockets. During the middle to late 20th century, traditional disability insurance evolved into modern health insurance programs. Today, most comprehensive private health insurance programs cover the cost of routine, preventive, and emergency health care procedures, and also most prescription drugs.

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