Don't give up on long-term coverage

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Author(s)	The St. Petersburg Times editorial board
Source	The St. Petersburg Times
Date	October 19, 2011
URL	http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article1197381.ece
Quote	Republicans predictably point to the failure to make the CLASS Act work as a reason to repeal the entire health care reform act. Long-term care premiums would have been paid for five years before any benefits were awarded. So it's true that because of the creative accounting, the CLASS Act produced $70 billion of the $143 billion in deficit reduction attributed to health care reform. But health care reform still saves money and has many other positive provisions, including many that already have taken effect.

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This item argues against the position Act should not have been passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.