Senator Joseph Lieberman “Regrets Any Misunderstanding”
Filed under: Medicare, Proposed Legislation
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Senator Joseph Lieberman says that he “regrets any misunderstanding.” Lieberman, who according to NPR’s All Things Considered “has angered a lot of people,” also said “I thought I made myself clear all along.”
All Things Considered characterized Lieberman’s rejection of the Senate’s Gang of Ten Compromise as follows: Lieberman “rejected both an expansion of Medicare to cover uninsured people down to age 55, as well as its revamping of a Public Option so that users would be covered by private rather than government insurance.”
Joe Lieberman “regrets any misunderstanding.” All Thing Considered noted “But as critics were quick to point out, this was the same Joe Lieberman who told the Connecticut Post just three months ago that he’d been a supporter of expanding Medicare to age 55.”
Lieberman said, regarding the video we posted yesterday,
“I finally got to see that on TV last night and it looked to me like I was referring back to things I had supported in the past to make the point that though I was against the Public Option, I was not against health reform.”
And there you have it– just a big, “regrettable,” misunderstanding.
In addition, Senator Lieberman said: “I haven’t received any pressure from Insurance Companies. I mean it!”
And I believe him. One rarely pressures a man who does everything one wants.
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