News
Politico | CLASS Act: Abandoned yet defended
No one knows what CLASS is, in the view of these strategists. The individual mandate is the only health reform issue anyone cares about. And every day spent repealing an abandoned program is another day of Congress doing nothing — Obama’s favorite theme.
National Journal | Breast Cancer Charity Pulls Funds From Planned Parenthood
A major breast-cancer charity has cut off support for Planned Parenthood because of controversy over abortion and the group’s standing as a provider of generalized women’s health services.
Econ Comments & Analysis
Politico | Implementing health reform
Consumers dread choosing health insurance, as various surveys show, largely because they don’t understand it. But the new health care law now calls for uniform health insurance summaries, available to all consumers starting in 2012. The Affordable Care Act requires that this summary be “understandable to the average plan enrollee.”
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | Obamacare: CLASS Act Repeal Vote Approaching in the House
The House of Representatives is expected to vote as early as tomorrow on H.R. 1173, the Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act of 2011. This bill would repeal the CLASS Act, Obamacare’s new long-term care entitlement.
