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Preferred term

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • 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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Entry terms

  • Affordable Care Act
  • Affordable Care Act (ACA)
  • Health Care Reform Act
  • Obamacare
  • PL 111-148
  • PL111-148
  • Public Law 111-148

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-CZ7TG446-0

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