from president obama s landmark health care plan which would have provided long-term health care insurance. it s been scrapped. the community assistance living program would have been voluntary and provided long-term care paid for by premiums and not needed tax dollars. this program was a long-standing priority of the late senator ted kennedy. eliminating c.e ining it is thee they ve given occupy a portion of the health care law. mark hall principperin. let s remember why there is a health care law. this country has a lot of unmet health care need. long-term care is one of them. the program going away doesn t mean people don t have this need. something has to be done by governors or federal government. politically it s a huge vulnerability for the administration. this is a stand-alone plan. had its own financing. but the political symbolism of them saying, something we thought would work, something we thought would be sound, is not sound. it has to be withdrawn. the left wi