PacifiCare Health Systems
PacifiCare Health Systems (former
NYSE:
PHS) was a
Fortune 500 healthcare company based in
Cypress, California. It was acquired by
UnitedHealth Group (
NYSE:
UNH) in late 2005, which continues to market health plans under the PacifiCare name.PacifiCare has more than 3 million health plan members and approximately 10 million specialty plan members nationwide. PacifiCare offers individuals, employers and Medicare beneficiaries a variety of consumer-driven health care and life insurance products. The company had 7,500 employees nationwide at the time of the acquisition by UnitedHealth.
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pacificare
v.
pacify, calm down, appease, reconcile, make up
pacificar
v.
pacify, placate, appease
pacifico
V
make peace| conclude peace; grant peace; pacify| appease
pacificar
= lull, still, appease.
Ex: Ulysses uses words to comfort and lull his mariners, to ease all minds about the hard decision he has made and to persuade all that his choice to leave is correct.
Ex: And arming himself with patience and piety he tarried awhile until the hubbub was stilled.
Ex: They've been working their butts off since the program was launched to appease the crowd.