As of today, there is no more lifetime cap on what your health insurance company will pay should you face expensive illness.

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There are tens of millions of Americans who no longer have to worry about the lifetime cap on their insurance policy running out.

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That means, for example, that they can't impose a lifetime cap where if you really get sick and suddenly there's some fine print in there that says you're not completely covered.

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Unless they want to go out there and make the case to the American public that insurance companies deserve more power, that insurance companies deserve the right to kick you off your insurance if you get sick, that they deserve the right to put a lifetime cap on your benefits.

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And then there are those annual lifetime caps that insurance companies set, where once you go over that cap -- as many women do because some forms of breast cancer are so expensive to treat -- then that cap makes it impossible to pay a penny more for that treatment.

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For example, they will no longer be able to deny customers coverage on the strength of some pre-existing condition, or put a cap on how much health care they will pay for over a lifetime.

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They'll no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or a lifetime.

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They will no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or in a lifetime.

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