healthcare industry
Medicine's business side
The healthcare industry encompasses all businesses and organizations involved in providing medical services, manufacturing medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, or administering health insurance.
It includes hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, drug companies, device manufacturers, and insurers.
In the United States, the term often carries political weight in debates over costs and access: The healthcare industry spent millions lobbying against the bill.
- medicalOf healthcare practice
- managed careCost-controlled health delivery
- pharmacyMedicinal dispensary
- treatmentCare for an ailment
- out of pocketPaid from personal funds
clinical trials · drug development · diagnosis · hospital · hospital bed · emergency room · doctor · white coat · bedside manner · nurse · clinic · surgery · medical devices · scrubs · biotechnology · pharmaceutical · rehabilitation · prescription
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
- State EconomiesGDP, tax revenue, economic development, job growth, unemployment rate
healthcare industryfree clinics
Healthcare sites without fees
public health system · socialized medicine · Doctors Without Borders · universal healthcare · traditional healing practices
healthcare industrytobacco industry
Cigarette and cigar trade
alcohol industry · dying · sick · pollution · unhealthy
healthcare industrydefense industry
Military equipment manufacturing sector
weapons manufacturing · military-industrial complex · war industry · tobacco industry · arms trade
health, caring, industry, unhealthy, uncaring, industrial, cares, cared, caregiver