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Everyone told Obamacarians that their long term health care provision would not work. But it was put in as part of Obamacare advocates’ promise-the-sky approach to legislating. But now, reality has bitten, and Secretary Sebelius has admitted what was always known. It won’t work. There is not going to be a long term health Obamacare. From the AP story:

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  program became the first casualty in the political and policy wars over the health care law. It had been expected to launch in 2013...After months insisting that could be fixed, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, finally admitted Friday she doesn’t see how. “Despite our best analytical efforts, I do not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time,” Sebelius said in a letter to congressional leaders.

The rest of the bill is also not going to work either. It’s a total mess.  Repeal!


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