February 3, 2012 12:25PM 

# The Real Tragedy of the Komen/​Planned Parenthood Flapdoodle 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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…is that it overshadowed [news](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/house-votes-to-repeal-class-act/) that the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to repeal one of two new entitlement programs created by [Obamacare](www.cato.org/bad-medicine/)—the ironically named [CLASS Act](https://www.cato.org/the-problem-with-class-is-that-its-voluntary/)—with [a bipartisan three-fifths majority](http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll018.xml). (With numbers like that, Congress could even repeal Obamacare’s [death panel](http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/10/27/does-obamacare-prevent-congress-from-repealing-it/)!)

But really, one private organization pulling funding for another private organization is way more important than Congress voting to repeal an entitlement program … isn’t it?

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