The amount you pay for covered health care services before your insurance plan starts to pay. With a $2,000 deductible, for example, you pay the first $2,000 of covered services yourself. After you pay your deductible, you usually pay only a copayment or coinsurance for covered services. Your insurance company pays the rest.
tilt-at-windmills definition: Verb 1. (intransitive) To attack imaginary enemies. 2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To go on a wild-goose chase; to persistently engage in a futile activity. Origin From a passage in the novel Don Quixote where the eponymous characte...
This is what is known axial tilt, where a planetâs vertical axis is tilted a certain degree towards the ecliptic of the object it orbits (in this case, the Sun). Such a tilt results in there being a difference in how much sunlight reaches a given point on the surface during the course of a year. In the case of Earth, the axis is tilted towards the ecliptic of the Sun at approximately 23.44Â° (or 23.439281Â° to be exact). 1  Earthâs axis points north to Polaris, the northern hemisphereâs North Star, and south to dim Sigma Octantis. 2  Artistâs rendition of the Earthâs rotation and the precession of the Equinoxes.