Healthcare or health care?

[BurtWorm]

[AquariDem]

1. Two words

Spelling nazi here! :)

[CarlBallard]

2. I'mwithyou

Health care sholdusespaces.

[BurtWorm]

3. Phew! I was worried that I was the last two-worder in the world!

I thought for a second there that it had become uncontroversially oneword. I am so relieved the controversy is not dead.

[MountainLaurel]

4. Both

When it's used as a unit modifier, it's one word. In other usage as a full noun, it's two. For example:

The healthcare system in the United States bites the big banana.

The unfortunate family had to sell their prized heirlooms in order to pay for health care.

(Edited because I'm a doofus who cannot string the proper thoughts after 10 pm. Besides, I am no longer an editor, so I really shouldn't care. Hooray for career changes! :party:)

[BurtWorm]

5. Except that in "health care premiums," it's used as an adjective.

But I get the drift. That makes sense. Like everday and every day. Interesting.