VIDEO: Watch Lieberman Endorse Medicare Buy-In Three Months Ago

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VIDEO: Watch Lieberman Endorse Medicare Buy-In Three Months Ago

Here’s some video of Joe Lieberman only three months ago appearing to endorse the Medicare buy-in idea — in seeming contradiction of his decision to bail on the Senate deal.

Lieberman discussed the Medicare buy-in a meeting with the Connecticut Post in September, according to an article in the paper at the time, as TPM noted today. But the article only paraphrased Lieberman.

I asked the paper to send over the video, and it’s worth watching, because it gives you Lieberman’s actual quotes — which seem at odds with the Lieberman camp’s claim today that he has real problems with the approach:

In the vid, Lieberman appeared to go further than the current Senate deal, which would expand Medicare to those aged 55-64, saying he supported the idea of expanding it to people aged 50 and over. Lieberman referenced his proposal along these lines during the 2006 campaign, and added:

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http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/health-care/video-watch-lieberman-endorse-medicare-buy-in-three-months-ago/

[Strelnikov_]

1. Worm n/t

[BeyondGeography]

2. What a hollow POS he is

[WI_DEM]

3. He's a lying snake in the grass.

[Blue Owl]

4. Fuck you Joe

I detest Joe Lieberman with every fiber of my being