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Obama Administration Drops Long-Term Care Insurance Initiative

Published on Wed Sep 21, 2011

Don't count on the CLASS Act to increase your home care census any time soon. In a letter to Congress, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Obama administration is dropping the long-term care insurance initiative. "Despite our best analytical efforts, I do not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time," Sebelius says in the letter. Read the letter and access a link to a 48-page report on the CLASS program at www.hhs.gov/secretary/letter10142011.html.
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