Judd Gregg: We Included CLASS In Health Reform To Accommodate Kennedy’s ‘Last Hurrah’

Judd Gregg admits that the failure of the Affordable Care Act’s long-term health care program CLASS won’t unravel the entire health care law in this morning’s interview with the Washington Post’s Sarah Kliff, but the former Republican senator offers some rather surprising explanations of why he included an amendment in the law that requires the program to remain solvent for 75 years. Last week, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius cited Gregg’s provision as a reason for why the government has stopped implementing CLASS.

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