Look, you want to know why people are fed up with politicians, is because of shit like this. And yes, it includes Democrats who continues to not stand up for what is right. The Obama Healthcare Plan has been dogged by the Republicans from conception. It was not the best piece of legislation, but damn can't the Obama White House at least stand up for what was in the legislation?



Known as the Community Living Assistance Services (CLASS) Act, the program was intended to be purely voluntary and open to all working Americans. It would have provided a basic lifetime benefit of a least $50 a day in the event of illness or disability, to be used to pay for even nonmedical needs, such as making a house wheelchair-accessible or hiring a home caregiver to assist with basic tasks. The program was to be entirely self-financed with the premiums participants paid. Obama officials said that presented them with a problem: If they designed a benefits package generous enough to meet the law’s requirements, they would have had to set premiums so high that few healthy people would enroll. And without a large share of healthy people in the pool, the CLASS plan would have become even more expensive, forcing the government to raise premiums even higher, to the point of the program’s collapse.

Rep. Phil Gingrey said the finding was long overdue. The Georgia Republican, who sponsored a bill to repeal the legislation, observed that more than a year ago the chief actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services determined that the program was at significant risk of failure. “I feel justified and vindicated,” Gingrey said. Like other Republicans, he predicted that this would be the first thread in the health-care law to unravel. “The bottom line is: As people start to understand this bill, you are going to see more and more of a domino effect,” he said.

Again, the Republicans are with glee, while the White House sound like crickets:When you have folks who are willing to negotiate everything away, well, yeah the historic piece of legislation will unravel, and it will be at our peril.

Folks, this is just the beginning.