More evidence that Lieberman is full of crap. Lieberman must hate the fact that Democrats gained a majority in Congress because it now means that he is being forced to show the degree to which he is in the pocket of big insurance.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34420961/ns/politics-capitol_hill/
WASHINGTON - Sen. Joe Lieberman was for a Medicare expansion before he was against it.
Democrats circulated video Monday from a Connecticut newspaper's interview in September showing Lieberman voicing support for a so-called Medicare buy-in allowing uninsured people as young as 55 to purchase coverage.
The Connecticut independent, whose vote is critical to the health care reform bill's prospects, had threatened Sunday to join Republicans in opposing health legislation permitting a buy-in.
The video from an interview with The Connecticut Post shows Lieberman talking about the health care reform proposals he has backed over the years, including during his 2006 re-election campaign.
"My proposals were to basically expand the existing successful public health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid," the senator said.
Lieberman said he was focused on helping older people who needed health insurance get it at more affordable prices.
"When it came to Medicare I was very focused on a group post 50, maybe more like post 55. People who have retired early, or unfortunately have been laid off early, who lose their health insurance and they're too young to qualify for Medicare and what I was proposing was that they have an option to buy into Medicare early and again on the premise that that would be less expensive than the enormous cost. "
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