GOP looks to formally terminate healthcare law's CLASS program

House Republicans returned this week with their sights on terminating a part of the 2010 healthcare law the Obama administration has acknowledged is unworkable.

The House Ways & Means Committee this week will mark up H.R. 1173, the Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act. That bill repeals the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) program, a voluntary long-term healthcare program.

The Obama administration decided last October that there was no way the program could be viable unless it were bolstered by taxpayer funds, in part because the program was voluntary.

However, President Obama has he does not support repeal of the program and has instead indicated support for finding a way to make it viable.

The Ways & Means Committee will meet Wednesday at 10 a.m. to mark up the repeal bill.

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