As part of Friday’s massive White House news dump, Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama’s secretary of health and human services, quietly pulled the plug on an alleged federal long-term care program for the disabled. We use the word “alleged” in this odd way only because the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, a key component of Obamacare, was in reality little more than an accounting fiction designed to conceal the actual cost of the president’s health care reform. The Washington Examiner warned Congress about CLASS many times, most recently last month when we called for its repeal. Sebelius’ action last week notwithstanding, it is unclear this week where her boss stands on the future of CLASS, thanks to some curious word-parsing by White House officials.
