The Affordable Care Act: Patients’ Bill of Rights and Other Protections

The Affordable Care Act offers several new protections known as the “Patients’ Bill of Rights.” We published several fact sheets explaining these protections and how they can help consumers. This brief is a compilation of those fact sheets, which discuss these protections:

ensuring coverage for people with pre-existing conditions
ensuring the right to choose a doctor
ensuring fair treatment of emergency care
making sure policies can’t be canceled unfairly
ending annual and lifetime limits
enhancing access to preventive services
ensuring the right to appeal health plan decisions
ensuring health coverage for young adults
protections under “grandfathered plans”

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