HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS AND INSURANCE BENEFITS

Health Insurers

Depending on the country, health insurance polcies are issued by health insurers. Many countries offer basic health services or universal healthcare for their citizens in conjunction with private health insurance companies that provide policies for treatment from private doctors and private hospitals.

Health insurance companies around the world

Company	Country	Type	Branches	History	Specialist	Parent	Members
HCF	Australia	Health, Life, Travel, Pet	Online, Phone, Branches in some States	Established 1932	Health	HCF Australia Limited	Over 599,000 policy holders
Bupa Australia	Australia	Health, Travel, Home, Motor, Life	Online, Phone, Bupa Centres	60 years through Mutual Community, MBF, and HBA	Health	Bupa Group	3.5 million customers
Medibank	Australia	Health, Overseas Students, Visitors, Travel, Pet, Life Cover	Online, Phone, Branches in some States	Established 1975	Health	Australian Government	Over 3.4 million people covered
RACT	Australia	Car, Home, Boat, Caravan, Travel, Health, Investor, Strata Title	Online, Phone, Branches in TAS	Established in 1923	General	n/a	Over 184,000 members
Australian Unity	Australia	Health, Car, Home, Travel, Landlords,	Online, Phone	Origins 1871	Health	Australian Union Limited	Health Cover over 350,000
NIB	Australia	Health, Travel, Funeral, Overseas visitors and students, Life	Online, Phone, Braches in some States	Established 1952	Health	NIB	Health cover to more than 800,000 people
Progressive	United States	auto,car,home,life,health,umbrella	450 offices nationwide	1937	n/a	n/a	more than 10 million policies with more than 1 million insuring bikes
State Farm USA	United States	auto,car,home,condo,renters,life,health,disability,business,boat, farm,ranch	n/a	1922	n/a	n/a	81 million policies in US and CA with 40 million drivers in the U.S having policies.
Allstate	United States	home,auto,car,health,life,business	n/a	1931	n/a	n/a	16 million households
Tower	New Zealand	health,car,home,life,boat,business	Rotorua and Christchurch	1869	general/life	n/a	n/a
China Life	China	life,health	18,465 sales outlets nationwide	1949	n/a	n/a	139 million long-term in-force insurance policies
Ping An	China	life,car,travel,home insurance,health,medical	n/a	1988	n/a	n/a	74 million customers
United India Insurance	India	fire,car,health,motor,marine cargo,engineering,industrial, liability,micro	1440 offices	1938	n/a	n/a	22,996,044 policies
Oriental Insurance	India	auto,home,car,home,health,business	30 regional offices and over 900 operating offices nationwide	1947	n/a	n/a	n/a
Allianz Malaysia Berhad	Malaysia	car, home, health	50 branches in all 5 regions	2001	n/a	Allianz Group	n/a
Great Eastern Life Singapore	Singapore	life,health,disability	n/a	1908	n/a	n/a	in Malaysia and Singapore with 3.8 million policyholders
Insular Life	Philippines	life,health	n/a	1910	n/a	n/a	n/a
Aviva	United Kingdom	life, auto,car, home,health,travel,	n/a	1696	n/a	n/a	over 14 million customers/ 2 million personal motor customers
Bupa UK	United Kingdom	health	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Churchill	United Kingdom	car,home,travel,breakdown,pet,motorbike,van,health	offices in Kent, Peterborough and Stockton on Tees but mainly online/telephone	1989	n/a	Royal Bank of Scotland	n/a
Sun Life Financial Canada	Canada	life,health	Waterloo, Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver and Toronto	1871	life	Sun Life Financial	advice and products to 6 million Canadians
Manulife Financial	Canada	life, health	offices in Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec	1887	n/a	Manulife Financial	millions, serves 1 in 5 Canadians.
HBF	Australia	Health, Travel, Car, Home, Life	Online, Phone, Branches in WA	1941	Health	HBF Group	Over 900,000 members in WA
Manulife Philippines	Philippines	life,health	offices around the country in Mindanao, Metro Manila, Luzon and Visayas	1907	n/a	Manulife Financial	n/a
Migdal	Israel	life,health,car,travel insurance,home,umbrella,business	n/a	1934	n/a	n/a	1,500,000 private and business clients
Porto Seguro	Brazil	auto, life, boat, health,	135 regional offices	1945	vehicle/residential	Porto Seguro	5 million customers nationwide
Great West Life	Canada	life,health,disability,business	over 100 offices across Canada	1891	n/a	n/a	along with its subsidiaries - 12 million people
Manulife Singapore	Singapore	life,health	3 offices in Singapore	1980	n/a	n/a	164,000 clients with about 280,000 insurance policies
Wells Fargo	United States	life,health,pet insurance	n/a	1852	n/a	n/a	n/a
Great Eastern Life Assurance Malaysia	Malaysia	life,health	29 branches	1908	n/a	OCBC	2.9 million policies nationwide
Hang Seng Bank	Hong Kong	travel,life,home,health,car	220 service outlets across hk	1933	n/a	HSBC	n/a
Allianz France	France	auto,car,home,health,life,business	n/a	1893	n/a	Allianz Group	5 million customers
Clal Insurance	Israel	life, health,travel,home,car,business	n/a	1987	n/a	IDB Group/Bank Hapoalim	24% insurance market share
Manulife Indonesia	Indonesia	life,health	24 offices	1985	life	Manulife Financial	1.6 million policies
BPI Philam	Philippines	life,health	800+ branch network	2009	life	BPI/Philam Life	n/a
Prudential Singapore	Singapore	life,health	n/a	1931	life	Prudential plc	1.7 million policies from 710,000 policyholders
Metlife Alico UAE	United Arab Emirates	life,health,travel	n/a	1962	life	MetLife, Inc (US)	100,000 customers
AXA Gulf UAE	United Arab Emirates	car,home,health,travel,motorcycle,business	offices in Abu Dhabi, Dubai Wafi, Dubiai Business Bay, DIC Service Centre, Jebel Ali and Sharjah	1950s	non life	AXA Group	500,000 policies in GCC
AIA Singapore	Singapore	life, disability,health,travel,home	Robinson Road, Alexandra, Changi, Tampines and Tanjong Pagar	1931	life	AIA Group	2.8 million policies/1 million policyholders
Cigna Thailand	Thailand	health	n/a	2002	health	Cigna Inc	570,000 policies
Bupa Thailand	Thailand	health,travel	n/a	more than 30 years ago	health	Bupa (UK)	200,000 members
Cathay Life Insurance	Taiwan	life,health	n/a	1962	n/a	life,health	10 million policies
Sovereign	New Zealand	life,health	Takapuna, Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch, Hasting and Wellington.	1989	life	Commonwealth Bank (Australia)	650,000 customers
ICICI Prudential	India	life, health	1400 offices	2000	life	ICICI/Prudential plc	n/a
NTUC Income	Singapore	car,life,health,travel	8 branches island-wise	1970	general	n/a	2 million policyholders
Samsung Life	South Korea	life,health,business	950 locations	1957	life	publicly listed	11.6 million individuals
Allianz Germany	Germany	Car, Health, LIfe, Home, Pet, Dental, Disability	819 Allianz Bank branches and certified agencies	1890	general	Allianz Group	19 million customers
USAA	United States	auto,car,home,health,motorcycle,business,life	USAA Financial Center in 8 States	1922	n/a	Not a corporation/ Inter Insurance Exchange	8 million members

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* 2012 Life Expectancy Estimates from CIA.gov
*** Adult Obesity Estimates from CIA.gov
^ UNODC - Motor vehicle theft at the national level with number of police-recorded offences at Rate per 100,000 population. It includes all types of vehicles include cars, motorcycles, buses etc.
^^ UNODC - Burglary breaking and entering at the national level with number of police-recorded offences at Rate per 100,000 population. It includes breaking into a house house; apartment,factory,shop or office
# Data is from the WHO Department of Health Statistics and Informatics (May, 2011) for "World Health Statistics 2011". Geneva: WHO.

Please note that data may not be comparable between countries due different definitions on crime data.