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BREAKING!! Obama's HHS ends controversial program in health reform law (Obamacare dying)
the hill ^ | 10/14/2011 | sam baker

Posted on 10/14/2011 1:29:43 PM PDT by milwguy

The Obama administration will not implement a controversial piece of the healthcare reform law, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Friday.

Sebelius said the department will not continue trying to implement the CLASS program, which was intended to provide insurance for long-term care. Republicans charged that the program’s financial structure was unsustainable, and Sebelius conceded as much Friday.

“We have not identified a way to make CLASS work at this time,” she wrote on the Huffington Post's website.

Sebelius said HHS will “suspend” implementation of the program.

The department recently reassigned the people it had placed in the CLASS office, following the release of emails showing that HHS officials had raised concerns about the program’s viability even before it became law.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barackruptcy; busted; class; classact; classaction; classless; crass; doomed; healthcare; hhs; identified; incompetent; kathleensebelius; lionstigersandbeers; longtermcare; obama; obamabinbiden; obamacare; obamacarerescission; paradiselost; sebelius; sucubus; toast; unexpected; utopiandreams
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To: Raycpa

Barry cannot hear you. He’s being raised in Indonesian.


101 posted on 10/14/2011 8:06:32 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: presently no screen name

bookmark.


103 posted on 10/14/2011 9:20:57 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Art in Idaho

You left out the third thing...extreme GovernMental EnvironMentalism... The new state religion!!!


104 posted on 10/14/2011 9:47:06 PM PDT by SierraWasp (I'm done being disappointed by "He/She is the only one who can win" and being embarrassed later!!!)
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To: milwguy

I think the reason they say “at this time” is that there are still too many people living well into old age. When Medicare is subsumed (they wish) into Obamacare, older folks will lose a lot more than $500 billion in Medicare funds, and there will eventually not be too many elderly for the CLASS plan to work.


105 posted on 10/15/2011 12:07:42 AM PDT by firebrand (Why didn't they impeach him? He's now totally out of control.)
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To: MrB

Another Friday, another News dump from the O’Dumbo Admin.


106 posted on 10/15/2011 2:21:38 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: MrB

Another Friday, another News dump from the O’Dumbo Admin.


107 posted on 10/15/2011 2:21:46 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Steely Tom

I’m coming around to Post Constitutional thinking.

Maybe I can suspend paying taxes for while.

And maybe ATF could sell me a few hundred assault rifles, so when the IRS come to collect, I can deliver.


108 posted on 10/15/2011 4:48:23 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: traditional1

You are correct. Part of the plan, “let’s just let these older folks take the blue pill...”


109 posted on 10/15/2011 5:01:46 AM PDT by Shady (The undeniable truth of the Obama Administration...The numbers do not lie.)
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To: HenpeckedCon

The bad press would make the Speaker cry.


110 posted on 10/15/2011 5:10:41 AM PDT by Shady (The undeniable truth of the Obama Administration...The numbers do not lie.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Obama is a Democrat problem. That’s a bad thing, because Democrats are spineless demagogues — as further evidence, Barney Frank’s baldfaced lie about the home lending crisis he created — and they won’t do anything about him. Thanks milwguy.


111 posted on 10/15/2011 5:23:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: milwguy
"“We have not identified a way to make CLASS work at this time,” she wrote on the Huffington Post's website. "

Well...duh~! Don't they think they should have figured this out before they made it a law?

112 posted on 10/15/2011 5:29:08 AM PDT by Mr. K (Sarah you broke my heart~!! Endorse Cain and all is forgiven)
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To: firebrand

Cutting long-term care keeps the total cost lower, thus the lawyers can claim it now “affordable” before the Supreme Court.


113 posted on 10/15/2011 6:14:12 AM PDT by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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To: Hoodat

Bump.


114 posted on 10/15/2011 6:22:32 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: milwguy
Am I the only one to notice:
115 posted on 10/15/2011 6:31:13 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (/)
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To: milwguy
Known as CLASS, the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program... Isn't that CLASSP


116 posted on 10/15/2011 7:42:08 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: milwguy

Obamacare is falling apart.


117 posted on 10/15/2011 7:54:43 AM PDT by RockinRight (If everyone wants to ride in the wagon, then who is pulling it?)
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To: 1010RD; rfp1234; MrB

“I believe the law is written such that they can make implementation decisions. Our legislators have granted the executive the power to ‘legislate’ that way.”


Thanks to all. Understand that there may be some discretion within the legislation regarding details on execution, but this particular provision seems to have been a key component of the “savings” that were cited to justify this legislative monstrosity so I was surprised that it could just be swept under the rug so easily. Then again, congress does not seem to mind passing the buck to avoid responsibility, so they may well be happy to offload such decisions to an agency head. Whatever the case, it is satisfying to see Obamacare being undone by its devious complexities.


118 posted on 10/15/2011 8:14:24 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Son House

I don’t think “affordable” has much to do with the court case.


119 posted on 10/15/2011 9:36:50 AM PDT by firebrand (Why didn't they impeach him? He's now totally out of control.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Its always something with him, in one fashion or another.


120 posted on 10/15/2011 9:50:04 AM PDT by Soothesayer9
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