{"id":6330,"date":"2011-09-23T14:24:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T18:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=6330"},"modified":"2011-09-23T14:25:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T18:25:25","slug":"no-class-in-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=6330","title":{"rendered":"No CLASS In Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Kathleen_Sebelius_official_portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kathleen Sebelius\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5c\/Kathleen_Sebelius_official_portrait.jpg\/300px-Kathleen_Sebelius_official_portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Kathleen Sebelius\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yesterday John Hinderaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2011\/09\/no-class.php\">Power Line<\/a>\u00a0reported that the\u00a0Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, a part of Obamacare that played a major part in getting the bill through Congress, may never come into existence. The Class Act is described in the article as:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>an optional, government-backed, long-term care insurance program that would pay a daily or monthly benefit to enrolled subscribers if they become unable to perform activities of daily living, such as dressing, meal preparation, and personal grooming.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because taxpayers had to pay into the program for five years before they were &#8216;vested,&#8217; the money collected during that first five years was calculated by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as $70 billion in deficit reduction.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Now, two years later, no one disputes that the Obama administration\u2019s assurances about the viability of the CLASS Act were false. In fact, in February of this year, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified before Congress that the program is \u201ctotally unsustainable\u201d in its current form. So much for the $70 billion in \u201cdeficit reduction\u201d that was an rationale for adoption of Obamacare!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was all done with smoke and mirrors&#8211;let&#8217;s repeal the whole Obamacare thing!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=ec2b06b0-d823-4c9a-a772-7d0ab1ad0208\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday John Hinderaker at Power Line\u00a0reported that the\u00a0Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, a part of Obamacare that played a major part in getting the bill through Congress, may never come into existence. The Class Act is described &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=6330\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[581,580,377,135,7,134,379],"class_list":["post-6330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-c-l-a-s-s-act","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-kathleen-sebelius","tag-obama-administration","tag-obamacare","tag-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act","tag-united-states-secretary-of-health-and-human-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}