Obama pulls plug on part of health overhaul law

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press via MSNBC 10/14/2011

The Obama administration Friday pulled the plug on a major program in the president’s signature health overhaul law — a long-term care insurance plan dogged from the beginning by doubts over its financial solvency.

Targeted by congressional Republicans for repeal, the long-term care plan became the first casualty […]

Obamacare HHS rule would give government everybody’s health records

Rep. Tim Huelskamp OpEd Contributor Washington Examiner 9/23/2011

It’s been said a thousand times: Congress had to pass President Obama’s health care law in order to find out what’s in it. But, despite the repetitiveness, the level of shock from each new discovery never seems to recede.

This time, America is learning about the federal […]

Little-known health care law provision is a budget buster, critics say

William La Jeunesse FoxNews.com 3/26/2010

While Congress spent the last year debating how to provide health insurance for the uninsured, a little-known provision slipped into the heath care law that could cost some Americans upwards of $2,000 a year.

The Class Act, otherwise known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act, is the […]

Hike In Long-Term Care Benefits Is Really Just Low-CLASS Trickery

by Sally C. Pipes Investor’s Business Daily 12/22/2009

The extent of smoke and mirrors in both the House and Senate health care bills is frightening. Much mischief is easily concealed in each 2,000-plus-page bill.

One part of the health reform bills that has not garnered much attention is Congress’ expansion into long-term care.

Just a […]

Congress’s Long-Term Care Bomb

by Scott Harrington Wall Street Journal December 13, 2009

The public is growing wary of the cost of ObamaCare. Yet there is one budget-busting provision that hasn’t received the attention it deserves: a new long-term care entitlement.

Known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, or Class Act, this entitlement is in both […]

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