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Obamacare Whac-A-Mole

In Health Care, President on December 31, 2013 at 8:36 pm

Yahoo! News

The wheels began to come off Obamacare in 2011 when the administration announced that the “CLASS Act,” a provision to provide long-term disability care, was, in the words of Kathleen Sebelius, “totally unsustainable,” and would be discontinued.

What was the problem? The White House website had boasted: “No taxpayer funds will be used to pay benefits under this provision … Safeguards will be put in place to ensure its premiums are enough to cover its costs.”

Full story: Yahoo! News