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Why is health care not a word yet? It sees more press than lipstick.?
Are they waiting to see if it goes away? Are dictionary publishers all right wing political ideologues?
I suppose "health care" will first need to be hyphenated, and then someday the two words, health and care will be united.
The word will probably look like this [healthcare].
Some comments point out that health care is in the dictionary. I wonder how many two word words there are using spaces.
OK, as an adjective it may exist, but not apparently as a noun.
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- s_sanjay9Lv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
This is a nice question, and I think "Healthcare" should genuinly find a place in the dictionary as a single word instead of "Health care".
The reason that it has not so far been added into the dictionary, as a single word is, probably on a lighter side, is that the population of the earth does not pay as much attention to the "Healthcare" as compared to "Lipstick".
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Quote from an online dictionary!:
health care
n 1: social insurance for the ill and injured
2: the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing
or treating illness through services offered by the health
profession [syn: healthcare]