Most states lack health care consumer protection laws
(MCT) — WASHINGTON — Nearly 4 out of 5 states have not enacted laws essential to enforcing new consumer protections in President Barack Obama’s health care law, less than a year before it is supposed to be fully implemented, a new survey indicates.
Millions of Americans still stand to benefit in 2014 from protections in the Affordable Care Act, such as a new guarantee that consumers with pre-existing medical conditions cannot be denied coverage.
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