Health Law to Be Revised by Ending a Program

[age_of_green]

"WASHINGTON - The Obama administration announced Friday that it was scrapping a long-term care insurance program created by the new health care law because it was too costly and would not work.

Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, said she had

concluded that premiums would be so high that few healthy people would sign up.

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[mollywobbles867]

Can you shrink the font size?

[wonderpup]

Can you please fix the font and get rid of the "Readers' Comments" box?

[baked_goldfish]

It kind of sounds like it was half-assed, to be honest. As in, it sounds like it would have been better if there were a mandated enrollment, like the health insurance bit of the ACA - that would've avoided the issue of having too small of a pool. Or if it were more like Social Security/Medicare, where it comes in the form of an automatic payroll tax.

Here are Sebelius's full remarks.

[age_of_green]

That's yours? I'd forgotten who made that!

And Bruno makes the best WTF faces, doesn't he?