{"id":109,"date":"2011-10-14T17:12:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T21:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/?p=109"},"modified":"2014-09-10T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T16:27:07","slug":"hhs-suspends-acas-class-act-for-long-term-care-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2011\/10\/14\/hhs-suspends-acas-class-act-for-long-term-care-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS Suspends ACA\u2019s Class Act for Long-Term Care Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late this afternoon the Department of Health &amp; Human Services&#8217; (HHS)Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pulled back a long-term care insurance program, the Class Act, that was passed under last year&#8217;s Affordable Care Act. The Class Act&#8217;s goal was to create an insurance program that could cover the health care costs associated with many activities of daily living, including bathing and toileting. Speaking today, the Health &amp; Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that there didn\u2019t appear to be a viable path for the Class Act, in part due to increasing concern that the program would have created substantial long-term costs.<\/p>\n<p>Read Kathleen Sebelius\u2019 full letter to Congress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/secretary\/letter10142011.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late this afternoon the Department of Health &amp; Human Services&#8217; (HHS)Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pulled back a long-term care insurance program, the Class Act, that was passed under last year&#8217;s Affordable Care Act. The Class Act&#8217;s goal was to create an insurance program that could cover the health care costs associated with many activities of daily &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2011\/10\/14\/hhs-suspends-acas-class-act-for-long-term-care-insurance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HHS Suspends ACA\u2019s Class Act for Long-Term Care Insurance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33],"ppma_author":[906],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-reform","tag-long-term-care-reform-updates"],"authors":[{"term_id":906,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}