What Is Insurance?

Welcome to What is Insurance.com. Our mission is not to sell you insurance or give insurance quotes, but to provide you with the necessary information to make healthy, informed choices when choosing car insurance, health insurance, and life insurance.

This information is universal unlike commercial insurance quote websites, and can be parlayed into making better, more informed choices in choosing insurance in the United States, UK or anywhere else in the world.

We hope What is Insurance.com will be a useful, free guide to better educate you about the different types of insurance you deal with daily (home, auto, title, health and life) and about the different types of insurance companies.

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Table of Contents

What is Insurance Introduction

History of insurance

Types of insurance:

• Auto insurance
  (car insurance or motor insurance)

• Home insurance
  (homeowners insurance or household)

• Boiler insurance
  (machinery and equipment insurance)

• Title insurance

• Health Insurance
  (private and public health insurance)

• Life insurance
  (whole life or term life insurance)

• Political risk insurance

Types of insurance companies

Life insurance and saving

Criticisms of the insurance industry
(arguments for universal heathcare)