(noun) “[T]hose who spend at least 10 percent of their income on health care costs that are not covered by insurance” (OpenStax College 2012).
Audio Pronunciation: (un·der·in·sur·ed)
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Usage Notes:
- Plural: underinsureds
Additional Information:
- Banaszak-Holl, Jane, Sandra Levitsky, and Mayer N. Zald. 2010. Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Kronenfeld, Jennie J. 2003. Reorganizing Health Care Delivery Systems: Problems of Managed Care and Other Models of Health Care Delivery. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
- Purdy, Michael, and David Banks. 2001. The Sociology and Politics of Health: A Reader. London: Routledge.
- Rochefort, David A., and Kevin P. Donnelly. 2012. Foreign Remedies: What the Experience of Other Nations Can Tell Us About Next Steps in Reforming U.S. Health Care. New York: Routledge.
- Weiss, Gregory L., and Lynne E. Lonnquist. 2009. The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
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References
OpenStax College. 2012. Comparative Health and Medicine. Connexions, July 16, 2012. (http://cnx.org/content/m42932/1.3/).