CLASS Act Repeal Should Be Taken Seriously

Brian Blase / September 23, 2010

Should Americans be forced into mandatory participation in a government-run long-term care Ponzi scheme? Or is a taxpayer bailout of another congressional misadventure a better idea? These may be the choices confronting a future Congress if the Community Living Assistance Services and Support (CLASS) Program is left intact. CLASS is a new government-run, long-term care entitlement for eligible workers created under Obamacare.

The main concern with existing entitlement programs—Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security—is that millions of Americans have been promised a benefit that is simply unaffordable to deliver. Instead of truly addressing the pressing entitlement crisis, however, Obamacare created new ones, including CLASS. Most unfortunate is that CLASS was included in the health care legislation not because of demand for such a program but as a budgetary trick to make the new law appear more affordable. (more…)