Lieberman won't back public option on healthcare

[babylonsister]

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/06/13/lieberman-wont-back-public-option-on-healthcare/

Lieberman won't back public option on healthcare
@ 2:50 pm by Michael O'Brien


Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said this weekend that he opposes a public option plan for consumers in a healthcare reform plan to emerge from the Senate.

"I don't favor a public option," Lieberman told Bloomberg News in an interview broadcast this weekend. And I don't favor a public option because I think there's plenty of competition in the private insurance market."

Lieberman's decision joins several other centrist Democrats' decision to have publicly refused to back the plan, derided as a "government-run" plan by Republicans.

Centrist Democrats like Sens. Mary Landrieu (La.) and Ben Nelson (Neb.) have also been skittish to back the public option, which is favored by liberal Democrats and the Obama administration. If Republicans are able to pick off enough Democrats, they may be able to muster enough votes to filibuster any legislation that includes the public option.

"We have a unique opportunity, a real opportunity to do this year what we've been trying to do for years, which is to reform American healthcare," Lieberman said. "I think the one thing that will stop that is pressure on the so-called public option."

"Let's get something done instead of having a debate," the Connecticut Independent added.

[MichiganVote]

1. Which is why Joe Liebermans "public" funded tax payer supported health insurance should be cancelled

I vote reform for American healthcare---politicians can buy their own healthcare on their own dime.

[madamesilverspurs]

4. I'll go you one better --

If fairness prevailed, no member of the House or Senate would be allowed to have better coverage than what is available to the working poor.

Lieberman and the rest of the republicans would change their tunes if they had to live that life for only a month or two. It'll never happen, because the cowardly wimps wouldn't last even a week and they know it.

[bobbolink]

10. ONLY the "working poor"? Those too old, or too disabled.... fall off a cliff?

Why the segregation?

[madamesilverspurs]

14. No segregation intended.

Since I'm old and disabled, I get SocSec benefits, including Medicare, and am not likely to be segregating myself out of the equation. Rather, I was thinking about those who work two and three jobs and have no insurance for themselves or their kids - basically inviting members of congress to give that situation a go, an invitation they would not hesitate to decline.

[bobbolink]

15. Please remember that separating out "favorite groups" does a lot of damage.

It plays right into the hands of those who want to divide and conquer and thus keep us ALL out of the equation.

I would hope that you would also remember that those of us who are disabled and HOMELESS are ALWAYS forgotten in these favorite groupings, and it causes suffering and death.

It's not a little detail.

It's important.

WE ARE ALL WORTHY!

[madamesilverspurs]

16. No argument from me.

I was attempting to offer a "for instance" instead of listing every possibility... So much for brevity, eh?

[bobbolink]

12. I definitely agree with you on this one, and it's what John Edwards threatened them with!

He said he would do everything in his power to take away their "public option" health care if they didn't put together a plan for the rest of us that is as good as what they get.

It's too bad the 'Murkin people wouldn't raise hell to have politicians health care recinded!

[sutz12]

2. Anything that doesn't include a viable public payed option isn't reform.

That's my opinion. I'm sticking to it.

And that goes for any "public lite" option, too.

[cagesoulman]

3. Are we that fucking surprised?

Remember who this turd is.

[Arugula Latte]

5. How do I hate Joe Lieberman? Let me count the ways ...

On second thought, if I did that, I'd be here all day.

[TahitiNut]

6. You guys just dislike Lieberman because he's Jewish.

(In memory of Carlos.)

:evilgrin:


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[annabanana]

13. (you crack me up you nut you). . . . . .n/t

[krispos42]

7. Gee, color me surprised.

I can't wait for confirmation that ursine mammels defecate in sylvian environs.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Predictable as sunshine in the Sahara.

[TankLV]

9. "Centrist" Democrats?!?!!! These are fucking RIGHT WING "d"emocrats...

They are in no way shape or form "centrist"...

fucking media whores...

[kenny blankenship]

11. Centrist within the context of a Neo Fascist status quo

[Kingofalldems]

17. He's the freepers favorite Democrat

Any fan of his should be considered a republican IMO.