### luck | wellbeing | health:

Health insurance
* Taking out private health insurance is one way of planning for health expenses.
* can pay a persons medical expenses for sickness or accidents
  - prevent children from ever needing the child welfare system
* covers a variety of costs
  - hospitalization costs
* covers the basic costs of medical care
  - costs of medical care due to illness
* critical employment benefit for many Milwaukee families
  - safety net for children
* equals access to health care.
* exists to protect individuals from unexpected occurrences.
* familiar vehicle to cover hospital and medical bills.
* helps kids stay healthy
  - to defray some of the cost for some persons
* is actually a system for arranging payments for medical services.
* is an absolute necessity to provide medical care in the case of illness or injury
  - employee benefit that many young people take for granted
  - ever-increasing expense as the baby boomer generation retires
  - important fringe benefit for many workers
  - ongoing problem for many missionaries and their families
  - comparable to non-taxable income
  - considered a basic benefit by most workers
* is important in getting needed care
  - to cover unexpected, large medical bills
  - inadequate for people with all kinds of chronic health problems
  - linked to employment, and job security is history
  - meant to cover medical care associated with an illness
  - more complex than life and retirement insurance
  - necessary in the United States because of the high cost of medical care
  - nothing more than prepayment of future health services by a group of persons
  - now the equivalent of auto insurance that covers fill-ups and oil changes
  - often an issue as well when one parent decides to stay at home
* is one of the most confusing issues facing individuals today
  - familiar types of insurance out there
  - part of the social safety net in every other major democracy
  - protection against the high cost of medical care
* is the benefit most used and valued by workers and their families, surveys show
  - most common benefit offered by small businesses
  - only protection against the cost of an unexpected emergency or illness
  - ticket to getting access to health care
  - very expensive in the United States
* major concern for the self-employed.
* means of protection from uncertain, future loss.
* mediates some pain associated with cost.
* most in today's expensive health world.
* pays for the majority of medical costs when a person is sick or injured.
* plays a significant role in our nation.
* provides children with a more positive future and a better chance of success
  - financial support for medical-related costs
* voluntary benefit for employees
  - provided by employers to their employees

Health research
* cornerstone of quality health care system of the future.
* is the foundation of public health and the treatment of disease
  - key to preventing disease and disability

Health risk
* appear to be associated with contact with the water when the toxin is present.
* are common among workers who handle fertilizer and pesticides without protection
  - higher in the tropics
* differ by a number of social factors, notably gender.
* go up as the proportion of body fat increases.
* related to fad diets take many different forms
  - the use of drugs factor regardless of age
* vary depending upon the chemical form of mercury to which one is exposed.

Healthy love
* involves devotion and trust.
* is part of the human fabric.

Healthy newborn
* All healthy newborns belong to and belong with their mothers
  - undergo one or two heel lances within the first few days for blood tests
* have lowest priority, regardless of the status of the mother.