ordinary insurance

The sick may still have an out-of-pocket cost, but less than under ordinary insurance.

Doyle looks like an ordinary insurance salesman, but he's the kind of guy who could get on a train with a gun and explode.

It was just ordinary insurance.

They are sold as ordinary insurance policies, which allow companies that buy them to receive favorable accounting treatment - smoothing out losses on their books, for example.

This would happen, they say, because the pool of people buying ordinary insurance would be, as a group, less healthy than it was before the buyers of medical savings accounts left it.

And some experts in the economics of health care worry that if enough healthy people sign up for medical savings accounts, the result would be much higher premiums for people and companies that stick with ordinary insurance policies.

Her boss, she recalled in an interview with Hall, "wanted to embarrass me by sending me back to selling ordinary insurance, but I embarrassed him by selling more insurance than anyone in the history of the company."

The world would probably assume that ordinary insurance companies had a great deal of exposure, when in fact, the risk resides mainly with Western insurers and with a special Japanese earthquake insurance company that's been socking away premiums for decades.

In Barton Fink , for example, Fink's adventures in '30s Hollywood lead him through a splendid gallery of vintage Los Angeles creatures--a madcap studio head, a gin-soaked Faulkneresque novelist, a seemingly ordinary insurance salesman (Goodman again) who makes strange noises in the hotel room next door.