lifetime limit

Maximum benefit cap

A lifetime limit is a cap on total benefits payable over the course of a policy, typically in health insurance.

Once reached, the insurer pays nothing more regardless of continued premiums: Her cancer treatment hit the lifetime limit after three years.

The Affordable Care Act banned lifetime limits on essential health benefits in the United States.

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health insurance · policy · fine print · coverage · coverage gap · benefits · exhausted · threshold · allowance · restriction · healthcare · payout · cumulative · out of pocket · medical bills · boundary · finite · quota

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temporal scope of restriction

lifetime limitannual limit

Maximum permitted per year

daily limit · monthly limit

presence vs. absence of cap

lifetime limitno cap

Slang for genuinely

uncapped · comprehensive coverage · full coverage

Family

life, time, living, lively, liveliness, lifelong, lifeless, lifeline, lifelike

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