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 programs 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 programs viability even before it became law.
My very first thought about this was why in hell Sebelius is announcing this on Friday via the Huffing and Puffington Post.
OBTW, when is this week’s Friday night document dump due...??
Exactly my thought. What gives some bureaucrat the authority to strike out part or all of a law passed by Congress.. This is not a pick and choose deal. They passed the hateful thing, now lets see them defend it. Enough of these wavers and the rest of the closed door modifications. It’s completely unconstitutional activity.
That’s the point...
this whole bill was full of the phrase “at the discretion of”.
This is something leftists like, to be able to arbitrarily make ad hoc decisions that exert power over others.
DING DING DING !!! WE HAVE A WINNER !!!
Identified? As if a way is there, but merely needs to be identified. I'll identify in for you, Kathleen -- it's called 'socialism'. ....and the overwhelming majority of tax-paying Americans don't want it.
When somebody does that in the private sector, they get thrown in jail and protesters occupy Wall Street.
Identified? As if a way is there, but merely needs to be identified. I'll identify it for you, Kathleen -- it's called 'socialism'. ....and the overwhelming majority of tax-paying Americans don't want it.
Old news? Seems to me I heard about this weeks ago.
They told more lies about the financing for this than
they are now able to cover.
This was the Bernie Madoff clause. Another lib Ponzi Scheme which nobody got to read, including most members of Congress who couldn't read it until they passed it even though zero promised a fictional 72 hour review buffer between introduction and the vote.
Excellent news.
How can they suspend implementation of the law? Under what authority?
” Where does Kathleen Sebelius get the authority to suspend implementation of a law?” <<<<
When humble master’s favorables fall to 38%. This is a last resort tactic to inject some modicum of redemption with someone out there, anyone out there, who votes. Independents. People despise government grounded in and based on fiat.
1. Socialized Medicine
2. Gun Control
How are we doing?
Okay CLASS, listen up. There is no way to provide health care without funds. Barak... BARAK... ARE YOU LISTENING!!!!
Obamacare’s most oft used phrase is “at the discretion of the Secretary of Health and Human Services”.
This is why the libs could support it without reading it.
It simply gave a “smart person” the authority to implement stuff at will.
READ THE ARTICLE!!!!!
” How can they suspend implementation of the law? Under what authority? “ <<<
There is no money for implementation (no payroll) and there are state laws and a Supreme Court suit pending against the “law” itself. And then there are Humble Master’s favorables falling to 38%. Sebiliusssssss has suspended the program but not reversed the “law”. All this, just in time for the election race, as Rush predicted. Oh, my.
we know that telling people that it's FREE! even though it is waaay more expensive for lower quality service was to make it difficult to remove. The Left does not give one iota about the health of Americans, if they did there would not be an industry based upon the murder of unborn Americans.
(Obamacare dying)
DO NOT RESUSITATE
That was another really insidious aspect of “universal” healthcare.
By making it a fixed pie, whatever your neighbor uses of that pie is pie that your own kids can’t use.
So, if the fat slob is smoking, eating cheeseburgers, and not exercising, you’re going to be inclined to accept “lifestyle laws” to make him live healthier.
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