Administration Kills 'Living Assistance' Provision in Obamacare

A "long-term living assistance" program that was supposed to create 40 percent of the supposed savings of Obamacare has been quietly killed by the administration.

In a letter released late Friday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius informed congressional leaders I do not see a viable path forward for the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act.

Determining that the program was not financially viable was both obvious and anticlimactic, critics said. A tea party group commended the administration for canceling CLASS before it started.

A year and a half ago, the Tea Party Patriots warned the White House about this fundamental flaw in Obamacare that would quickly lead to its collapse, said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots.

Now that CLASS, the brainchild of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, is gone, the tea party group called on the White House to "heed the will of the American people and scrap all of Obamacare now."