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  • noun The quality of being insurable.

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  • noun the quality of being insurable; the conditions under which an insurance company will issue insurance to an applicant (based on standards set by the insurance company)

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Examples

  • We also know that when confronted with any illness, the more information you have, the more capable you will be in making decisions that can ultimately have an impact on a patient's healthcare and long-term insurability as well as your financial stability.

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  • We also know that when confronted with any illness, the more information you have, the more capable you will be in making decisions that can ultimately have an impact on a patient's healthcare and long-term insurability as well as your financial stability.

    unknown title 2009

  • And, regardless of how much information you provide them, young adults are unlikely to properly weigh the value of some long-in-the-future insurability issue vs. saving money now by not buying insurance.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It’s a Tax 2009

  • Absent destructive price controls, insurers could address the pre-existing conditions problem with innovative products that guarantee your future insurability.

    Brian T. Schwartz: How to Insure Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions Brian T. Schwartz 2011

  • Absent destructive price controls, insurers could address the pre-existing conditions problem with innovative products that guarantee your future insurability.

    Brian T. Schwartz: How to Insure Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions Brian T. Schwartz 2011

  • That means insurability of the business, jobs, infrastructure, the buildings, the liability—those are all the things that go with it.

    Willis Is Primed for Developing Asia Jason Chow 2011

  • A recent heart attack, bypass or valve surgery will result in a drop in insurability and an increase of 25% to 100% or more in premiums over standard, or average, risk policies.

    Getting Life Insurance M.P. McQueen 2010

  • Prof. John H. Cochran from the University of Chicago in his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal proposed Health Status Insurance as an umbrella insurance securing lifetime insurability in the event one develops a pre-existing conditions.

    Henryk A. Kowalczyk: Will Republicans Ever Have a Viable Alternative to the Public Option? 2009

  • The "pre-existing conditions" insurability problem is addressed by establishing a relatively high (and possibly adjustable) level of tax deductibility for catastrophic insurance premiums (see 2 above and e. below), and bringing charity (voluntary outlays) for those with such conditions into play for reimbursement for service providers.

    What Makes Health Care Different?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • I was trying to make the point that there are ways to mitigate the high cost of universal insurability.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Cost of Insurance “Reform” 2009

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