voluntary insurance

collocation in English

meaningsofvoluntaryandinsurance

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voluntary
adjective
uk
/ˈvɒl.ən.tər.i/us
/ˈvɑː.lən.ter.i/
done, made, or given willingly, without being forced or paid to ...
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insurance
noun
uk
/ɪnˈʃɔː.rənsɪnˈʃʊə.rəns/us
/ɪnˈʃɜ.r.əns/
an agreement in which you pay a company money and they pay your costs if you have an accident, ...
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(Definition ofvoluntaryandinsurancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It recommended that sickness insurance be compulsory sincevoluntaryinsurancefailed adequately to cover those whose needs were greatest.
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Only in the case of close relatives caring for a disabled child arevoluntaryinsurancecontibutions fully paid by the state.
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Experience had shown that few people selectedvoluntaryinsuranceof this sort, and that those who did were scarcely those most in need of it.
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Those not covered under any of these schemes again have the opportunity ofvoluntaryinsurance.
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Until now there has been mandatory insurance for lower income groups andvoluntaryinsurancefor the higher income classes.
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The friendly societies andvoluntaryinsuranceplans probably represented a more serious barrier to the enactment of compulsory sickness insurance than the doctors.
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Social health insurance and taxation are compulsory, whilevoluntaryinsuranceand out-of-pocket payments are voluntary.
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Economists worried about the viability ofvoluntaryinsuranceschemes fear 'adverse selection', whereby good risks opt out and leave only bad risks remaining in the pool.
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There must have been good and excellent reasons for giving excepted persons the right ofvoluntaryinsurancein the past.
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Flat rate contributions and benefits make it desirable that higher income contributors should enter intovoluntaryinsurance.
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They are compulsory insurance, national assistance andvoluntaryinsurance.
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There are opportunities ofvoluntaryinsuranceopen to any licence holder who conducts his house well.
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My appeal to the producers is that they should start withvoluntaryinsurance.
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I want to put a few questions to those who advocatevoluntaryinsurance.
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Is he likely to go into avoluntaryinsurancescheme?
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It is that we should not carry out the compulsory part of this scheme, but make a beginning withvoluntaryinsurancealone.
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In any provision that may be made for the encouragement ofvoluntaryinsuranceminers would naturally be included.
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It is common ground that we wishvoluntaryinsuranceto continue and to prosper.
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The alternatives are compulsory insurance orvoluntaryinsurance.
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There were those unable to be insured because they had not made the contributions for compulsory orvoluntaryinsurance.
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