Opinion: Long-Term Care Insurance in Reform Is a Dud
The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act in the Senate's health care reform legislation would create a new program whose costs would come to exceed its revenue, Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, argues. She disputes projections from the Congressional Budget Office about the price of the long-term care insurance program and maintains that CLASS would require cash infusions from Congress to keep paying out benefits.
- "Orange Grove: CLASS Act in Health Bill Really Isn't" (Pipes, Orange County Register, 1/6).