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The new program - called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act - would be funded by premiums and would pay enrollees $50 or more per day if they became too disabled to perform normal daily activities like eating and bathing. Employers who chose to participate would sign up their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Long-Term-Care Insurance Be Part of Health Reform? | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

One major change is in eligibility. The original CLASS Act would have allowed nonworking Americans to enroll in the long-term-care plan if their spouse worked, which could have led to "adverse selection," attracting people to the program who were too disabled to hold a job and therefore sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Long-Term-Care Insurance Be Part of Health Reform? | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

Paul Van de Water, a longtime CBO analyst and now senior fellow at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, says the CLASS Act doesn't have strong enough work requirements, which are intended to be a proxy for physical fitness. Americans who perform only seasonal work, for example, could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Long-Term-Care Insurance Be Part of Health Reform? | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Il has previously declared the six-party talks "dead," saying only direct negotiation with the U.S. on a range of issues is acceptable. But pressure from China - thought to be the only country with any leverage over Pyongyang - may have produced a change of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Tries Direct Talks with North Korea | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

But that is the best the Administration is now hoping for, a variety of sources tell TIME. Early on, Obama had entertained the possibility of striking a grand bargain with North Korea: a nuclear deal, plus U.S. diplomatic recognition of the North and a move toward a formal peace treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Tries Direct Talks with North Korea | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

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