carte soleil
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French carte soleil.
Noun
[edit]carte soleil (plural cartes soleil)
- (Quebec, informal, medicine) The Quebec medicare card.
- 2019, Suzanne Korf, "Give it your all by signing your organ donor medicare sticker", Montreal Gazette, ISSN 0839-3257
- I guess we can’t call it the carte-soleil anymore.
- 2003, Christian Bourret, Gabriella Salzano, Daniel Laurent, "Data and cooperative work in Health Services", Proceedings Systems Integration 2003, DOI 10.1.1.197.3574
- 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).
- 2000, “Canada Observed: Perspectives from Abroad and from Within”, in Jürgen Kleist, Shawn Huffman, →ISBN:
- ...so that every citizen of Quebec has a carte soleil, with the Quebec government icon on it.
- 2019, Suzanne Korf, "Give it your all by signing your organ donor medicare sticker", Montreal Gazette, ISSN 0839-3257
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From carte (“card”) + soleil (“sun”). From the sunset in a spruce forest illustration on the card, from a photo of a sunset at Lac Faillon, Quebec, taken by Robert Larivière in the 1970s, and used by Louis Larivière for the winning design of the card.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carte soleil f (plural cartes soleil)
- (Quebec, informal, medicine) Synonym of carte d’assurance maladie du Québec (the Quebec medicare card)
- (by extension) any socialized health insurance card, government health care card, medicare card
Descendants
[edit]- → English: carte soleil
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