carte soleil

noun

The Quebec medicare card.

Meanings

nouncarte soleil (plural cartes soleil)

plural cartes soleil · alternative carte-soleil

  1. QuebecinformalmedicineThe Quebec medicare card.

    I guess we can’t call it the carte-soleil anymore.

    2019, Suzanne Korf, "Give it your all by signing your organ donor medicare sticker", Montreal Gazette, ISSN 0839-3257
    2 more examples

    In Quebec (Canada), the Carte Soleil organized by the Régie d'Assurance Maladie du Québec - RAMQ (Quebec Health Insurance Office), which has greatly inspired the French Carte Vitale should soon integrate emergency medical data thanks to a double authentication (patient and health professional).

    2003, Christian Bourret, Gabriella Salzano, Daniel Laurent, "Data and cooperative work in Health Services", Proceedings Systems Integration 2003, DOI 10.1.1.197.3574

    ...so that every citizen of Quebec has a carte soleil, with the Quebec government icon on it.

    2000, “Canada Observed: Perspectives from Abroad and from Within”, in Jürgen Kleist, Shawn Huffman, →ISBN

Origin

  1. Frenchcarte soleil
  2. Englishcarte soleil

From French carte soleil.

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Chicago

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