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An Act prohibiting a health plan from establishing lifetime limits or annual limits on the dollar value of benefits for any participant or beneficiary after January 1, 2014. It permits a restricted annual limit for plan years beginning prior to January 1, 2014. It provides that a health plan shall not be prevented from placing annual or lifetime per-beneficiary limits on covered benefits. The Act sets up a competitive health insurance market.
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- Affordable Care Act
- Affordable Care Act (ACA)
- Health Care Reform Act
- Obamacare
- PL 111-148
- PL111-148
- Public Law 111-148
- 111-148, PL
- Act, Affordable Care
- Acts, Affordable Care
- Acts, Affordable Care (ACA)
- Affordable Care Acts
- Care Act, Affordable
- Care Act, Affordable (ACA)
- Care Acts, Affordable
- PL 111 148
- PL111 148
- Public Law 111 148
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add UNITED STATES; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry
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2011
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- National Library of Medicine. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D058991. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D058991
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Care_Act
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1414593