Lieberman Changed Tune on Medicare Buy-In
It is difficult to understate how angry liberals are today at Sen. Joe Lieberman (I–CT), whose surprising statement that he does not support a compromise health care bill that includes a Medicare buy-in on "Face The Nation" Sunday forced Senate Democrats back to the drawing board in their quest to craft a bill that can garner the necessary 60 votes.
At the New Republic, there are suggestions that Lieberman "isn't actually all that smart." In the Washington Post, meanwhile, it's being floated that he "he seems willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score." And these are the nice ones.
Now those angry at Lieberman have been pointing each other to a video obtained by Greg Sargent that has even the normally restrained Associated Press writing that Lieberman "was for a Medicare expansion before he was against it."
The Medicare buy-in would allow uninsured Americans who are 55-64 years old to purchase Medicare coverage. In the video, of a Connecticut Post interview in September, the senator referenced a proposal he offered in 2006, which he said was to "basically expand the existing successful public health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid."
At the New Republic, there are suggestions that Lieberman "isn't actually all that smart." In the Washington Post, meanwhile, it's being floated that he "he seems willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score." And these are the nice ones.
Now those angry at Lieberman have been pointing each other to a video obtained by Greg Sargent that has even the normally restrained Associated Press writing that Lieberman "was for a Medicare expansion before he was against it."
The Medicare buy-in would allow uninsured Americans who are 55-64 years old to purchase Medicare coverage. In the video, of a Connecticut Post interview in September, the senator referenced a proposal he offered in 2006, which he said was to "basically expand the existing successful public health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid."








