Another Obamacare Entitlement Program Exposed

“We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” Remember when then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that?

In what is becoming a common occurrence, we’re finding out what’s in it. This time, another unsustainable layer of Obamacare has been exposed.

The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, the “CLASS Act,” creates a government-run long term care insurance program that’s too costly to sustain.

At a time when entitlement programs are at the brink of bankrupting this country, liberals embedded this program into Obamacare. Now, as more and more information is revealed about the program’s consequences, liberals are back-pedaling their support.

A pet project of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), the CLASS Act was never going to be a sustainable program. For one thing, it suffers from an adverse-selection problem: the program would appeal mainly to those in poor health that would require long term and costly care.

The Heritage Foundation’s Brian Blase explains why the CLASS Act is broken and how its ill-conceived design would lead to its inevitable collapse or bailout:

Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius has since stated that CLASS is “totally unsustainable” and “financially unsound.”  HHS claims the only way to solve these problems without using their administrative authority would be through a taxpayer bailout, higher premiums, or by mandating worker participation.  None of which are acceptable options.

It’s time for proponents of Obamacare to admit they are fighting a losing battle. What do you think about CLASS? Does this country need another taxpayer funded entitlement program?

We know that liberals like to ignore the Constitution. And when they’re not ignoring it, they’re misinterpreting its true meaning.

To help clarify some of the liberal misconceptions that have developed over the last 224 years, The Heritage Foundation’s Julia Shaw separates fact from fiction.

Myth:  The Constitution is racist: There is no better way to end a heated conversation about the Constitution than to claim that the Constitution is racist. In his feature on the Constitution, Time magazine managing editor Richard Stengel dismissed the Constitution because the Framers “gave us the idea that a black person was three-fifths of a human being.”

Fact: The Constitution does not classify people according to race. Free blacks in the North and the South were counted on par with whites for purposes of apportionment. Southern states wanted slaves to count as full persons to inflate pro-slavery representation in the House of Representatives. The three-fifths compromise was designed to prevent Southern states from magnifying their political power. The word “slave” or “slavery” never appears in the Constitution. When the 13th Amendment was ratified, not a single word of the Constitution needed to be deleted. As the escaped slave turned abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, once commented: the Constitution “was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.”

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