Health care law encompasses the laws and regulations governing hospital and health care administration, and an understanding of health care insurance is integral to it. There are significant differences in the types and amount of coverage provided by various private insurance policies, such as HMOs, PPOs, disability insurance, and hospital indemnity insurance, just as there are important differences in the cost to the purchasers of health insurance. There are also public health care insurance programs. Elderly and disabled persons may be eligible for coverage through the federal Medicare program. The joint state-federal Medicaid program helps certain individuals, including disabled persons and low-income elderly persons, pay for long-term care and in-home health care.
Purcell an outer suburb of Oklahoma City, is often called "Quarterhorse Capital of the World" and is a city in and the county seat of McClain County (pop.37,500), Oklahoma, United States; it also extends a small distance into Cleveland County. The population was 5,571 at the 2000 census and 10,880 residents in the zipcode (Bestplaces. net). Located along the I-35 Corridor in the central part of the state, on a bluff overlooking the Canadian River valley, within the Interior Plains region. Purcell is the hub for a micropolitan retail trade area of 34,600 (Bestplaces. net) at the southern edge of the 7 county central Oklahoma/Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area with close economic ties to its neighbor to the north Norman and the University of Oklahoma. The official motto and registered trademark for Purcell is "Heart of Oklahoma"