Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Synonyms

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

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PL111-148

Public Law 111 148

Public Law 111-148

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.