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... > Health Care Economics and Organizations > Economics > Financing, Organized > Insurance > Insurance, Health > Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Economics > Financing, Organized > Insurance > Insurance, Health > Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Health Care Economics and Organizations > Social Control, Formal > Legislation as Topic > Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Control, Formal > Legislation as Topic > Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

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

Note

  • add UNITED STATES; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 2011

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D058991

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