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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: milwguy

“We have to pass the Bill to see what is in it”


61 posted on 10/14/2011 3:13:57 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/01...NEVER FORGET.)
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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.

It must REALLY be bad when the Rats can't figure out how to make it work with an unlimited amount of other people's money.

62 posted on 10/14/2011 3:15:09 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: milwguy

Nancy said they’d have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it. They passed the bill, and even Obamaton Sebelius found out that it was impossible to implement.

But that what not an accident. Everybody knew that CLASS would fail. In fact, the entire PPACA was designed to fail to demonstrate that an insurance-based plan for universal health care cannot work even with a mandate. In the wake of PPACA’s certain failure, Obama will usher in either some variant of universal Medicare, Canadian-style single payer or British-style socialized medicine.


63 posted on 10/14/2011 3:17:03 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: milwguy

The “Death of a Thousand Cuts” LOL


64 posted on 10/14/2011 3:20:40 PM PDT by left that other site (Psalm 122:6)
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To: milwguy

The whole thing was/is a trap to tax to death americans.

BTW has the death panel made a ruling on this yet. Or did Sebielus pull the plug on her own.


65 posted on 10/14/2011 3:22:19 PM PDT by marty60
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To: milwguy

romneycare -> obamacare -> slavery.


66 posted on 10/14/2011 3:24:19 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: milwguy

On a Friday afternoon, Rep will probably blow it


67 posted on 10/14/2011 3:25:13 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge (SARAH PALIN 2012 OR FLIPPIN BUST)
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To: bert

Exactly!


68 posted on 10/14/2011 3:26:25 PM PDT by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: Da Bilge Troll

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

I thought this disaster was an all or nothing deal. Doesn’t conceding that pieces of it won’t work mean that the whole thing goes.

Is that what’s happening?


69 posted on 10/14/2011 3:31:54 PM PDT by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: 9YearLurker

well. of the top of my head:

two marxist appointees to the supreme court.

the dodd frank takeover of the banks.

the sb510 takeover of our food supply.

the takeover of the auto industry (with the exception of ford.)

with the republican collectives help, the, i hope temporary, defeat of the tea party and the total corruption of our government.

the massive increase in spending including TARP 1, 2, ..., N
the porkulus simulus and omnibus bills to fund the dem party. funding of his cronies on wall street and the public employee unions.

the fascist implementation of the administrative state, including many elements of obamacare.

the looming takeover of the internet.

extension of the welfare state. the placement of millions more on unemployment thus spending and enslaving at the same time.

....well that’s probably just the tip of the iceburg.


70 posted on 10/14/2011 3:34:21 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Starboard

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?

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Good point. CAN THEY? Anyone?


71 posted on 10/14/2011 3:35:12 PM PDT by marty60
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To: milwguy

“...the program’s financial structure was unsustainable..”

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

Gee, I guess the rest of it is workable and sustainable?


72 posted on 10/14/2011 3:40:57 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: dadfly

Yeah, I guess there’s that...


73 posted on 10/14/2011 3:41:42 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: bert

I was indeed wondering how we can just decide we’re not going to “implement” something even if it’s on the books.


74 posted on 10/14/2011 3:42:24 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: 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.

Why uner your breath?

When I get in a long line in the P.O. I usually say loud enough to hear it, "You think this is bad, wait until you get Obamacare"...

75 posted on 10/14/2011 3:48:09 PM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: taildragger

You sound like my husband. Most of the time people act puzzled.. but sometimes they also speak up in a good way.


76 posted on 10/14/2011 4:00:48 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: bert

That is what I thought too. How do you suspend something that has been written into law? Wouldn’t you have to pass a new law? I don’t get it either?


77 posted on 10/14/2011 4:03:27 PM PDT by Mrs. Frogjerk
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To: Repeal The 17th

Get a grip! The discretion is in the law itself!


78 posted on 10/14/2011 4:07:57 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: milwguy

Unfortunately for us, too many of the RINOs are “reaching across the aisle” to work with GOOD Demoncrats to say anything negative....don’t want to hurt any feelings now do we? /s


79 posted on 10/14/2011 4:10:59 PM PDT by jennings2004 (Looking for a conservative candidate to support...:))
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To: bert; Track9; Hoodat; APatientMan; the OlLine Rebel; Mrs. Frogjerk
how can a law be suspended?

My guess is that in the massive volume that was the "health care" law - the one we had to pass to see what was in it - there was a built-in provision for the program to be aborted if certain conditions could not be met. That is the only way that they could change a law AFTER it is passed.

Unless we are witnessing true, across the board anarchy.

80 posted on 10/14/2011 4:23:27 PM PDT by fwdude ("When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve ...")
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