Blue Cross

Blue Cross
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a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families

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1. the largest private health insurance company in the US. It was formed in 1929 and in 1982 joined with its rival Blue Shield, which began in 1917. The main office of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is in Chicago.
2. the Blue Cross a British charity organization that treats sick animals.

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