In the final weeks of the 2010 health care debate, Democrats added a long-term care provision known as the CLASS program. Democrats pitched the program as reducing the cost of the health care overhaul by $70 billion over 10 years. So why do experts on both sides of the aisle now see the CLASS program as a financial time bomb that will saddle taxpayers with another massive entitlement? If that happens, what will it mean for the care that members of the CLASS program receive? What can Congress do about it? And what parallels are there between the CLASS program and Solyndra in terms of what was promised and what taxpayers actually get? We discuss it all with Texas Rep. Mike Burgess, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
