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Universal Coverage

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Definition: Health insurance coverage for all persons in a state or country, rather than for some subset of the population. It may extend to the unemployed as well as to the employed; to aliens as well as to citizens; for pre-existing conditions as well as for current illnesses; for mental as well as for physical conditions.  restrict to health insurance; specify geog if pertinent    Other names Coverage, Universal

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