The CLASS Act was inserted into the Affordable Care Act as a sort of tribute to the late Ted Kennedy, the bill’s longtime champion. It enacts a federal long-term care insurance program, a kind of public option for long-term care. The Obama Administration, emails now show, didn’t like it from the beginning. And now, there are signs that they may not put it into practice.

Susan Grigsby of Twenty Nine Palms, California, recounts the story of her brother dying of cancer while lacking insurance.

As Susan says in the video, her real scorn was reserved for the candidates on stage who want to be President saying nothing when a crowd cheered on the notion of allowing people to die, essentially because of their financial status.

Just to get back to this drive for regulatory reform that you’ll see from the House GOP over the next several months, with spending de-emphasized, take a look at Eric Cantor’s memo on the upcoming agenda from the chamber. About 80% of it concerns repealing “job-destroying regulations,” which suddenly have become the core reason for the lack of jobs. I thought it was all about runaway spending, but I guess that was last week.

I’m so old I can remember when Lieberman wanted to expand Medicare. It was in 2009. He endorsed at that time a plan to lower the eligibility age for Medicare to 55 and allow people from 55 to 64 to buy into the program. Then he got wind that liberals liked that idea, and revoked his support, killing the idea when it was on the precipice of passing as part of the Affordable Care Act. Now, in this op-ed, he’s gone completely in the other direction, by endorsing a plan to “raise the Medicare eligibility age every year starting in 2014 by two months until it reaches 67 in 2025.”

The Department of Health and Human Services, in a show of concern about the lack of pickup of a signature early deliverable for the uninsured in the health care law, will lower the price of premiums by up to 40% in 18 states for the government’s high-risk pools. Eligibility standards will also be simplified in 23 states and the District of Columbia.

Ryan’s plan to turn Medicare into an income-based, sliding-scale voucher that seniors use to buy only private insurance on a loosely regulated exchange is nearly identical to the Obama Affordable Care Act’s basic design that gives the uninsured under 65 income-based, sliding-scale vouchers to buy only private insurance on loosely regulated exchanges.

On this day last year, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. Even after a year of debate, most people in the country weren’t entirely sure what became law on that day. And that remains the case.

There’s one area on which House Republicans can agree, and it’s the centerpiece of their health care strategy, the signature bill, maybe the only bill on this issue they’ll pass this year. It’s a bill banning federal funding of abortion.

Even if you believe that some patch or change to the system would have to come if the mandate gets struck down, you’d have to agree that Cutter’s rigid stance here doesn’t even allow for that possibility.

Among adults age 18-64, and in case you didn’t know that’s the voting age, 22% are uninsured. Half of the uninsured have incomes over the poverty level. 40% of them have one or more chronic diseases. This is not about being young and libertarian and free, this is about not being able to afford health insurance.