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Positive Outlook

• The Curtain Rises on CLASS (NY Times - 3/17/2011)
• The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act (Kaiser Family Foundtion 10/09)
• The CLASS Act: A Flawed But Powerful Game-Changer for Long-Term Care (Kaiser Health News 11/09)
• Options Expand for affordable long-term care (New York Times 3/10)

Neutral Outlook

• Cost Containment (NWSJ 3/31/11)
• The Curtain Rises on the CLASS Act (New York Times 3/17/11)
• Congressional Research Service (5/10) Excellent 18 page detailed report on CLASS
• Business Insurance Article (4/10)
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Summary (4/10)
• EBN Employee Benefit News (4/10)
• Should Long-Term-Care Insurance Be Part of Health Reform? (Times Magazine 12/09)

Negative Outlook

• CLASS Didn't Add Up (NY Times 10/19/11)
• Obama Pulls Plug on Part of Health Overhaul Law (NY Times 10/14/11)
• Gang of Six: Kill CLASS; Cut Social Security, Health Spending (Insurance News 7/20/11)
• Heritage Foundation (7/10)—No CLASS
• National Center for Policy Analysis (6/10) Interesting (not positive) Fiscal CLASS Insights
• Academy of Actuaries (July 09) please view Page No.1 of PDF
• Department of Health and Human Services Actuarial Report (11/09) please view PDF pages 10-11 The CLASS program is unsustainable
• A New Long-Term Care Insurance Program (New York Times 3/10)
• Health Care Reform & LTC (John Hancock Update 3/10)
• Congress's LTC Bomb (Wall Street Journal 12/09)
• Adverse Selection and the Class Act (Milliman Health 12/09)
• Flawed aid for long-term care (Washington Post 12/09)
• CLASS act in health bill really isn't (Orange County Register 1/10)
• Will the CLASS Program Succeed? (Watson Wyatt 12/09)

General Interest

• "Elderly and Disabled Put at Risk by Cuts in Home Care" — NY Times Magazine Article (7/16/10)
• "What Broke My Father's Heart" — NY Times Magazine Article (6/20/10) Heartfelt and factual