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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Definitions
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.
Synonyms
Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Acts, Affordable Care (ACA)
Act, Affordable Care
PL 111-148
Public Law 111-148
Affordable Care Act
Care Act, Affordable (ACA)
Affordable Care Acts
Health Care Reform Act
Care Acts, Affordable
PL111 148
Obamacare
Public Law 111 148
Acts, Affordable Care
PL 111 148
Care Act, Affordable
111-148, PL
PL111-148
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