How to Use social insurance in a Sentence

social insurance

noun
  • That is the only way a nationwide social insurance system can work.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2020
  • The mechanism every country in the world uses to do this is a social insurance system.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2020
  • Long-term-care social insurance isn’t going to take away our freedom and prosperity.
    — Jason Karlawish, STAT, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Moreover, it is tied up in retirement savings as well as varying degrees of social insurance.
    — The Economist, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Our social welfare system is, in effect, a system of social insurance.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Elder care has long been at the center of political battles over social insurance.
    — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The program numbers tell the tale of a broadly necessary but very basic social insurance program.
    — Christian Weller, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • An uproar among social insurance experts persuaded him to reverse his stance promptly.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The second dispels many of the myths that confuse many Americans about our social insurance program.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 25 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Many states searching for solutions are looking at social insurance models as a promising approach.
    — Marc Cohen, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Recently, the drumbeats for cuts in social insurance benefits have been sounding louder.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The announcement comes as the national social insurance plan faces a severe financial shortfall in the coming years.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • These friends act as social insurance systems for each other, helping each other when needs arise because of unpredictable and uncontrollable events.
    — Athena Aktipis, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The first state social insurance program for long-term care was recently initiated in Washington.
    — Jasmine L. Travers, STAT, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Previously, non-resident families had to pay taxes or social insurance for at least six months before being allowed to buy a second home.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune Asia, 30 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Additionally, non-residents will now only need to pay taxes or social insurance for a year before purchasing a home in the city’s suburbs, down from three years.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune Asia, 30 Sep. 2024
  • These problems of funding our major social insurance programs and of medium- and long-term balancing of federal finances as a whole, are not insoluble ones.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The key to insurance For social insurance to succeed, the vast majority of workers should participate.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • China’s overhaul of its social insurance program for migrant workers could narrow urban-rural divides in the country and unlock new streams of economic growth, analysts said.
    — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 25 May 2026
  • This feature is similar the French model of long-term care social insurance where every retiree gets some benefit but the amount is linked to beneficiaries’ ability to pay.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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