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Worry Less Spend Less: Out-of-Pocket Spending Caps Protect Families in Alabama
Publication Date: March 2011
Publisher(s): Families USA
Author(s): Kim Bailey; Elisabeth Rodman; Kathleen Stoll
Series:
Topic: Health (Health care financing)
Keywords: health reform; health insurance; out-of-pocket cost
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The report examines how the Affordable Care Act will protect insured people from high medical costs through new caps on out-of-pocket spending. It provides estimates of how many Americans will have spending that exceeds these caps and by how much, and it looks at how many of those people work for small businesses.