Lieberman: Without Public Option, Health Reform Would Pass

Connecticut Post:

U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman made it clear Wednesday that he would not vote for a health care bill that included a government-run option, but said that without it, he and most of Congress would support comprehensive health care reform.

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Comments

[Freenation]

01:20 PM on 09/07/2009

if there is a poll in the u.s. which state repeatedly chooses the worst law.maker, C.T. would easily land up in the top three spot...

[LarksTongue]

04:10 PM on 09/04/2009

Without Lieberman, we could have had a Democrat.

[ncdeb6]

02:47 PM on 09/04/2009

Well, of COURSE it would pass! It would mean the insurance companies and all their puppets have managed to keep things just as they are now. I hope this total lack of compassion will mean the end of Lieberman's career in Congress after this term.

[needlewoman]

02:11 PM on 09/04/2009

This is a wolf in sheep's clothing....er....I mean a REPUBLICAN in disguise as a democrat. Democrats had better wake up and expel him from the party. What has he done lately other than to attempt to wreck any democratic program?

Party leadership had best realize how disgusted most democrats are with Lieberman, as well as how really upset most Jewish people are. This.....toad.....does NOT represent us.

[studioh!]

01:28 PM on 09/04/2009

and without "mourning joe" the democrats would be doing just fine

[Tom95134]

12:57 PM on 09/04/2009

Leiberman may be right that without the public option, health care reform would pass. However, it really wouldn't be "reform" but just another excuse for the industry to continue to rape the American public in the cause of health care.

Leiberman is on the wrong side of this issue. But, I have to give him credit, he has stayed away from the insanity of the Republicans with their "death panels' and such. He's just wrong.

[marye13]

12:44 PM on 09/04/2009

The problem, Joe, is that without a strong public option - there is no reform.

[jcause28]

12:46 PM on 09/04/2009

exactly. At best just more loopholes for the insurance companies.

[rssrai]

12:41 PM on 09/04/2009

You are done Lieberman next time around. Thank goodness.

[RobertHenryEller]

12:13 PM on 09/04/2009

Joe sure takes care of his constituents.

By the way, Connecticut voters.

That doesn't mean you.

[sonoffestus]

12:51 PM on 09/04/2009

Hartford , CT..............home to some of the countries largest insurers.

[RobertHenryEller]

12:55 PM on 09/04/2009

That's right, sonoffestus.

I was referring to Connecticut-based Insurance companies when I referred to Lieberman's "constituents."

[MBryant]

12:04 PM on 09/04/2009

Without the public option, the health reform bill is just Obama spending a bunch o money on health care. Why would Republicans and/or the health insurers not like this? They give up nothing and it makes everything they are saying true.

[Matt7]

11:59 AM on 09/04/2009

I love Joe Lieberman. In the same way that I love Republicans. They are such beacons in lighting the way through difficult and complex issues. If ever I am in doubt about the validity or advisability of a particular action or piece of legislation, all I have to do is look at and listen to those guys.

Then, whatever they suggest -- I know to do the opposite. Thanks, guys!

[OhComeOnNow]

12:24 PM on 09/04/2009

Fanned and faved.

[BlackYowe]

11:37 AM on 09/04/2009

Lieberman belongs to the group that masterminded all the oil wars. His was an advisor for PNAC! If you don't know what that is look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

[breakingpoint]

11:35 AM on 09/04/2009

Israel has socialized medicine

[RobertHenryEller]

12:12 PM on 09/04/2009

And guess who pays for it?

[BlackYowe]

09:40 PM on 09/04/2009

That's right, you and I!

[MessageForceMultiplier]

11:35 AM on 09/04/2009

That's because without the public option it's not really reform, and cowards like Lieberman love passing junk legislation that makes it look like something is getting done without actually threatening their sugar daddies.

[Ex-Kindergartner]

10:57 AM on 09/04/2009

LIeberman looks like Gollum in a suit. Acts like him, too.

[BlackYowe]

11:38 AM on 09/04/2009

He sure does! LOL