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The U.S. senator from Connecticut discusses the public option and the pending health care reform bill
nytimes.com - 6/28/2009
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IN the debate over health care reform ,
one issue looms large: whether to have a public
option. Should all Americans have the opportunity to sign up for government-run health insurance? President Obama has made his own preferences clear. In a letter ...
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Economic View - The Pitfalls of the Public Option in ...
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The surfeit of polling data showing broad public
support for the public option hasn't swayed Connecticut Sen.
Joe Lieberman, who's joining conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans in staunch opposition. Check out this video from Paul Bass at ...
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Lieberman: I Stand With The Small Minority Of Americans ...
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GEORGE NEWMAN The health-care debate continues. We have
now heard from nearly all the politicians, experts and
interested parties: doctors, drug makers, hospitals, insurance companies, even constitutional lawyers (though not, significantly, from trial ...
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Lieberman: I Stand With The Small Minority Of Americans Who Oppose Public Option
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The surfeit of polling data showing broad public support for the public option hasn't swayed Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, who's joining conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans in staunch opposition. Check out this video from Paul Bass at the New Haven Independent.
His two key objections are:
"If we create a public option, the public is going to end up paying for it."
"My fear is...[health care providers] would end up getting levels of reimbursement from the public plan...comparable to what they get today from Medicaid." ...
Lieberman: Not enough votes for public plan
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KEY BLOGS What they are saying today Drudge Report With a picture of Al Franken from his Saturday Night Live days, Drudge banners: "Super Majority" and links to this Reuters story on Republican Norm Coleman's concession. A suspected North Korea ship has changed course, via the AP, is also ... READ MORE Huffington Post The Huffington Post banners: "It's Final, Franken Won" and links to their coverage of the final outcome of the Minnesota Senate contest. The HuffPo also highights this Hill story on Democrats and Republicans having yet to nominate a single person ... READ MORE DailyKos South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) ...
Lieberman: Public Option Not Good On Politics Or Substance (VIDEO)
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Even with Al Franken finally seated, Democrats will have trouble getting their agenda through the Senate. Case in point: Connecticut Independent Joe Lieberman, who told the New Haven Independent that public health care couldn't and shouldn't pass.
"I'm skeptical of it, both in substance and in the politics," Lieberman said to the paper. "And by the politics I mean I think we're not going to get the votes to pass the overall bill if that becomes a condition of it."
On the substance, Lieberman said: "Part of my concern is ... that inevitably if we create a public option, the public is going to end up pay for it and that's a ...
Lieberman: Public Option Not Good On Politics Or Substance (VIDEO)
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Even with Al Franken finally seated, Democrats will have trouble getting their agenda through the Senate. Case in point: Connecticut Independent Joe Lieberman, who told the New Haven Independent that public health care couldn't and shouldn't pass.
"I'm skeptical of it, both in substance and in the politics," Lieberman said to the paper. "And by the politics I mean I think we're not going to get the votes to pass the overall bill if that becomes a condition of it."
On the substance, Lieberman said: "Part of my concern is ... that inevitably if we create a public option, the public is going to end up pay for it and that's a ...
“He’s With Us On Everything But The War”
Firedoglake —
Paul Bass of the New Haven Independent catches up with President Lieberman, who says a public plan is not going to happen -- because he's going to rally a bipartisan Senate group against it.
Which, of course, instantly spawned much fond nostalgia from veterans of the 2006 campaign. ...
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