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Descriptor English:   Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
Descriptor Spanish:   Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
Tree Number:   N03.219.521.576.343.918
N03.706.615.806
Definition English:   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. 
Indexing Annotation English:   add UNITED STATES; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry
History Note English:   2011 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
CL classification EC economics
ES ethics HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence OG organization & administration
ST standards SN statistics & numerical data
TD trends UT utilization
Record Number:   54393 
Unique Identifier:   D058991 

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