{"id":1730,"date":"2010-03-27T18:29:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T18:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2010-03-27T18:29:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T18:29:40","slug":"under_the_radar_in_the_healthc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1730","title":{"rendered":"Under The Radar In The Healthcare Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/26\/little-known-long-termhealth-care-provision-budget-buster-say-critics\/\">Fox News<\/a>&nbsp;reported on a provision in the healthcare reform bill that somehow got through without anyone noticing.&nbsp; According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p nodeindex=\"2\"><em>&#8220;The Class Act, otherwise known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act, is the federal government&#8217;s first long-term care insurance program.<\/em><\/p>\n<p nodeindex=\"3\"><em>&#8220;Under-reported and the under the radar of most lawmakers, the program will allow workers to have an average of roughly $150 or $240 a month, based on age and salary, automatically deducted from their paycheck to save for long-term care.<\/em><\/p>\n<p nodeindex=\"4\"><em>&#8220;The Congressional Budget Office expects the government will collect $109 billion in premiums by 2019.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" nodeindex=\"4\">Here comes another bureaucracy.&nbsp; The deductions could begin as early as 2012.&nbsp; After a five-year period, participants would be able to use the money for in-home care.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" nodeindex=\"4\">This is one of many things buried in the 2000+ page bill that no one had time to read before it was passed.&nbsp; I would also like to mention that Congress is not covered by the healthcare reform act they just passed&#8211;it will not impact their healthcare insurance at all.&nbsp; We have created a political class that is immune from the laws that they are passing.&nbsp; That was not what our founding fathers intended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Fox News&nbsp;reported on a provision in the healthcare reform bill that somehow got through without anyone noticing.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;The Class Act, otherwise known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act, is the federal government&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1730\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}