Universal, publicly funded medical and hospital insurance was introduced as part of the federal government's creation of what became known as Medicare.

Medicare provides hospital insurance for 28 million Americans 65 years and older and 3 million disabled workers under 65.

The increase would be 20 percent for people who only have hospital insurance.

The Australian government has introduced a number of incentives to encourage adults to take out private hospital insurance.

I have no peers, and no hospital insurance.

There has to be free treatment because there are 40 million people in America without hospital insurance.

Federally, these included hospital insurance, old-age pensions, and veterans' pensions.

Empire Blue Cross, which has provided hospital insurance to 1199 members for years, announced earlier this year that it planned to become a profit-making company.

One of the proposed solutions at the time was universal hospital insurance, which the OHA generally supported.

Despite a lack of commitment for federal funding, Saskatchewan proceeded with a plan for provincial hospital insurance.