medicare
pronunciation
How to pronounce medicare in British English:
UK [ˈmedɪkeə(r)]
How to pronounce medicare in American English:
US [ˈmedɪker]
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- Noun:
- health care for the aged; a federally administered system of health insurance available to persons aged 65 and over
Word Origin
- Medicare
- name for a state-run health insurance system, 1962, originally in a Canadian context, from medical + care (n.). U.S. use is from 1965.
Example
- 1. This could include cuts in military spending and medicare payments to health-care providers .
- 2. Mr. obama 's plan wouldn 't leave medicare untouched .
- 3. Do you accept medicare or medicaid insurance ?
- 4. One frequent answer has been medicare .
- 5. He initially suggested scrapping medicare entirely .