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The House of Representatives passed with U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga’s support a bill that will save billions of tax dollars by cutting a provision from President Obama’s health care law that even the Administration agreed was unworkable.

“I strongly support any bill to ensure that not one cent of taxpayer dollars is wasted under a government program. We have bipartisan agreement that this program needs to be erased, and today we’re doing that,” Huizenga said.  

BACKGROUND: Well before the health care law was signed, economists and policy experts questioned the viability of the controversial long-term entitlement program created under this provision, called the “Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Program” (CLASS), but it made it in anyway. During the health care debate, it was revealed the program simply served as a budget gimmick giving the false impression that the law cost $80 billion less than it actually did. On October 14, 2011, the Obama administration admitted the program is unworkable and halted implementation of the program, but despite this the program remains on the books.

 

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