Washington (Reuters)-Obama government is a long-term, nursing home care plan included in the 2010 years the plug medical reform act republicans laughed at for budget trick.
U.S. health officials said on Friday, after 19 months of analysis, they can't take out a so-called model class method, make voluntary and budget "neutral.
"K green, the health and human services and program manager assistant secretary-general from aging said," we don't have a path forward, with reporters in the phone.
"All we do, the more that the program (financial) voice we moved away from the law, and increases the risk of law of the program."
The community living assistance services and support (kind of) the purpose of the plan is to accept care at home, not usually are more expensive institutions to take care of the disabled and the elderly cash.
According to the provisions of law, workers have to start in October of 2012 years after, after the HHS plan for the benefits of the design scheme. The scheme has been voluntary welfare qualifications, shall, before pay for at least five years, the participants.
The congressional budget office estimates that the plan will be in the plan in the first decade of the federal deficit reducing $7 billion.
However, the congressional budget office also said the plan will begin to lose money, the first ten years or twenty years later, a paid more than the premium income.
Republicans, and many of them are eager to abolish the Obama health care reform as the ace, criticism of the cost reduction methods of law "affordable medical treatment method.
"Kind of behavior is the budget gimmicks may improve the Washington bureaucracy of the electronic form Numbers, but in the real world is doomed to failure," senate republican leader MaiKangNaiEr said.
"However, this is worth the kind of law only remember is not a wise, unsustainable legal, not wise, not one of the components for"
The green said, affordable medical action will continue to reduce the $12.7 billion deficit, between 2012 and 2021, or even a kind of method,. However, the decision to suspend the plan may reduce the President's 2013 budget baseline.
Dozens of countries to lodge a complaint, challenge medical health care act, especially the requires that all americans have health insurance. The Supreme Court is expected to June 2012, some time before the legal challenges rules.
Don't increase
In September, in the republicans in congress that the government has been questioned by an actuary of E-mail, even in plan become affordable medical method "part.
Republican policy committee also reported from September, the HHS member Bob said, he was appointed an actuary run the program a E-mail, said he would leave his position and grade a office will be closed.
HHS secretary Kathleen sibelius in February admits, the agency struggled in long-term operation of the procedure, to sustain itself.
On Friday, the green said, allow the law clearly scheme is suspended, if the HHS 75; it is not proof financial sound.
"Because of the uncertainty of the huge surrounded, from the beginning of establishment of plan, this regulation, department (HHS) secretary general, to meet the solvency, we can't carry on, otherwise," she said.
Some Democrats on Friday urged not to give up the HHS to plan so quickly.
Representative frank Pallone, from New Jersey Democrats written jointly plan and the late senator Edward Kennedy and said, the old and disabled requires nursing home care medical drop, if the project was abolished.
"If the procedure to need to improve, and then let us find a way to do this, he said in a statement."
", although we are against republicans trying to cut medical so hard to... give up kind of method is wrong decision. Soon, there are people in need will have nowhere to go the long term care."
According to the AARP, a nonprofit organization that represents more than 50 years old, 65 70% of people over age require long-term care services, in some point in his life, medical insurance, the old man and the federal insurance program for the disabled, not including the care.
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