How to Use social insurance in a Sentence

social insurance

noun
Definition of social insurancenext
  • Most come down to a choice between some form of social insurance, as in Japan and Germany, or getting more people to pay for care themselves.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson took on oil and rail cartels, and advocated social insurance on behalf of the man in the street.
    — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
  • The mechanism every country in the world uses to do this is a social insurance system.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2020
  • That is the only way a nationwide social insurance system can work.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Many of those countries had Social Security laws on their books long before the U.S. jumped on the social insurance bandwagon in the 1930s.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2021
  • The second dispels many of the myths that confuse many Americans about our social insurance program.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The code syncs with payment and messaging apps but in Hangzhou, Alibaba’s hometown, the code is even linked to a person’s social insurance and medical records.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Winter, Gray and the progressive coalition that has worked on this bill have all long preferred a social insurance model, which is the norm in states that have passed similar policies.
    — Alex Burness, The Denver Post, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Long-term-care social insurance isn’t going to take away our freedom and prosperity.
    — Jason Karlawish, STAT, 19 Mar. 2021
  • There is also the cost of cuts to other agencies to free up money for disasters, and the burden of increased spending on social insurance and safety-net programs, such as food stamps.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Moreover, it is tied up in retirement savings as well as varying degrees of social insurance.
    — The Economist, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Elder care has long been at the center of political battles over social insurance.
    — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Our social welfare system is, in effect, a system of social insurance.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • As this year’s topic, the students were tasked with analyzing the sustainability of a long-term care social insurance system.
    — Erika Rose, Post-Tribune, 7 June 2018
  • Canals, railroads and land-grant colleges in the 19th century gave way to electrification, interstate highways and social insurance in the 20th.
    — John Harwood, CNN, 9 May 2021
  • Washington state has created the nation’s first long-term care social insurance program.
    — Ai-Jen Poo, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
  • Names, birth dates, phone numbers and email addresses may have been exposed, but addresses, social insurance numbers and any banking information weren’t, the lender said.
    — Doug Alexander, Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • These kinds of headlines were prompted by a report released last week from the Social Security Board of Trustees that said the nation’s bedrock social insurance program is one year closer to insolvency.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The key to insurance For social insurance to succeed, the vast majority of workers should participate.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • An uproar among social insurance experts persuaded him to reverse his stance promptly.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Recently, the drumbeats for cuts in social insurance benefits have been sounding louder.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Even worse for women, Germany’s main social insurance program (Kurzarbeit) did not apply to many occupations that referred to as ‘mini jobs’ and are considered women's work.
    — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • The first state social insurance program for long-term care was recently initiated in Washington.
    — Jasmine L. Travers, STAT, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The company was told in July to ensure its workers are paid above minimum wage, get basic social insurance and a relaxation in delivery deadlines.
    — Yue Wang, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • After the income tax, the most important revenue raisers are for social insurance, such as Social Security and Medicare.
    — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Instead, China generates the bulk of its tax revenue from two levies that fall disproportionately on the poor: value added taxes on consumer goods and social insurance taxes.
    — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Unlike full-time employed workers, dispatch workers do not receive paid sick leave and social insurance for medical expenses, CLW said.
    — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2019
  • While businesses haven’t raised salaries much, their mandatory contributions to employees’ social insurance programs have been rising for years, both in nominal terms and as a share of economic output.
    — Toru Fujioka, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Before the New Deal, a surprisingly large number of Americans were covered by social insurance plans — plans that existed entirely outside the sphere of formal politics.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Advocates for Social Security and other social insurance programs never let their guard down against threats to the programs and their beneficiaries.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020

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