BREAKING!! Obama's HHS ends controversial program in health reform law (Obamacare dying)

the hill ^ | 10/14/2011 | sam baker

[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.

[milwguy]

Half of ObamaCare's supposed deficit reduction comes from the Community Living Assistance Service and Supports (CLASS) Act, a long-term care benefit tacked onto the bill and scored as reducing the deficit by about $70 billion over the next decade. But that's only because the law's authors gamed the Congressional Budget Office's scoring rules. The score counted premiums collected this decade as reducing the deficit despite the fact that they'll be needed to pay out benefits later. Even worse, the premiums won't be enough to pay for all of the benefits: In the long-term, the program isn't self-sustaining, and will actually add to the federal deficit.

[milwguy]

The Republicans should be all over this. The lie that is ObamaCare is unraveling by the day and CLASS just wiped out half of Ol Barry’s supposed ‘savings’.

[Typical_Whitey]

Obamacare is nothing more than an attempt for Government control over our lives. It has never been sustainable that’s a joke. It is a massive unfunded liability that will make Social Security and Medicare pale in comparison. The twist has always been get people hooked on the benefits then dare Republicans to strip the benefits away..... causing riots like we are about to start seeing on wall street... All liberals have is class envy and class warfare.... hopefully enough Americans wake up to the brainwashing of the left and start rejecting Liberalism enmasse.

[traditional1]

Here is part of the “Death Panels” packaging.....

[AlmaKing]

And Sebelius announces it on HuffPo.

[skimbell]

I don’t care if it is Friday, this announcement will get some attention.

[bert]

how can a law be suspended?

Can the laws protecting the president just be suspended as well? By whom?

[rovenstinez]

Spent my morning in the Social Security office and then the POST OFFICE. I swore under my breath that ít’s going to be a real bad moment when these same folks run the health programs.

[JosephMama]

Great news. But it’s all gonna come down to the decision by the SCOTUS.

I think we should win there.

[shield]

Just a small piece of that monster.

[Responsibility2nd]

“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.

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Yeah, whatever. But will they cut the funding for just this part of the failure that is Obama Care?

~snort~

We all know the answer to THAT!

[Da Bilge Troll]

Where does Kathleen Sebelius get the authority to suspend implementation of a law?

[Starboard]

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

I'm happy to hear that Obamacare is collapsing under its own weight, but as a purely procedural matter don't understand how HHS can unilaterally suspend implementation of any legislation without congressional action. Does an agency have that type of authority?

[TexasFreeper2009]

It’s a good thing we had to pass this to know what was in it!

[skimbell]

“We have not identified a way to make CLASS work at this time,”

Maybe next week they take a look at 0's whole phakin' presidency and handle that the same way.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Rush was talking about this a month or so back. Hussein isn’t killing it...he will wait.

[Red Badger]

[sodpoodle]

***Does an agency have that type of authority?***

Apparently - every Federal Agency employee can give tax-payer money to illegal immigrants, liars and thieves.

We have seen the videos.

It’s officially sanctioned and accounted for as - waste, fraud and abuse.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“Obamacare is nothing more than an attempt for Government control over our lives. “

It’s like the Facebook of healthcare.

[GailA]

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