Crumbling From Within?

Yes, it isn't Obama Care, it is the Reid/Pelosi Health Insurance Reform Bill, but however you call it, it took a hit on Friday.  All controllable bad news comes on Friday afternoons, when most decent people are either at Happy Hour or home with their families.

The Washington Post reported that CLASS, was being dropped by the Administration.  This is about the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act.  Clever juxtaposition of words. The idea of CLASS was that we could develop a program open to all Americans to pay for long term disability, for life.  The approach was strongly supported by the late Senator Edward Kennedy.  (Did he do his economics studies at Harvard?)

In the story in The Washington Post:

Kathy Greenlee, assistant secretary for aging at the Department of Health and Human Services, announced its conclusion Friday: “At this point, we do not have a viable path forward to implement the CLASS Act.”

Jennifer Rubin wrote an appropriate OpEd on the issue.

Health care continues to be an issue in this nation.  Some of our approaches are not economically sound, such as dealing with those without health insurance via hospital emergency rooms.  However, we have no other workable alternatives.

Hat tip to the Instapundit.

Regards  —  Cliff