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Strange bedfellows

by: Scarce

Mon Oct 26, 2009 at 10:46:44 AM EDT


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Senator Joe Lieberman (left); CT  GOP Chairman Chris Healy (right), with cardboard McCain

This from The Hill caught my eye this morning.

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), one of a handful of Senate wild cards in this fall's healthcare reform debate, says his concern about the Senate bill is based on the national deficit - not the insurers that dominate his state.
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"Insurers aren't my biggest concern - I sued them once when I was attorney general, and I'm not afraid to end anti-trust exemptions," Lieberman said. "I am really worried about what this could do to the deficit.
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One unlikely ally of Lieberman's is state GOP Chairman Chris Healy, who said he agrees with the senator's skepticism about the bill and that he sees few faults in Lieberman's support for home-state interests.

"What we have a lot of here in Connecticut is people in the pharmaceutical industry, biotech and physicians," Healy said. "They're the ones who can figure this out, not the government. Joe Lieberman, even though he's very liberal sometimes, understands that.

"I don't think the industry is going to have their feelings hurt if he's not waving pom-poms. They just don't want Congress to nationalize the management of risk. While I criticize him a lot, to me he's making the most sense out of all the Democrats on this."

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Joe Lieberman never once worried about the deficit (0.00 / 0)
when this country BORROWED 1 trillion for an unneccasary war we LOST in Iraq and will not bat an eye if we need to BORROW another trillion for a war we'll also LOSE in Afganistan.

We now have a Health care reform bill WHICH WILL ADD NOTHING TO THE DEFICIT and Lieberman says he's worried about what it will do to the deficit?

Sorry Joe, Flat out and simple,You're a LIAR!!

PS- Hey 4 time Drunk Driving Convicted CT Republican State Chairman,

How'd your boys in the private sector(AIG,BofA,Merrill Lynch...) do with that risk management thing?

PPS- Dear Republican State Committee,

Perhaps you should reconsider giving a Dry Drunk a job where he gets to speak to the press.  


Perhaps Mr Healy wasn't aware that 73% of physicians support a public option (4.00 / 2)
...according to this recent poll. 10% even support a single-payer system only, which is interesting.

Among all the players in the health care debate, doctors may be the least understood about where they stand on some of the key issues around changing the health care system. Now, a new survey finds some surprising results: A large majority of doctors say there should be a public option.

When polled, "nearly three-quarters of physicians supported some form of a public option, either alone or in combination with private insurance options," says Dr. Salomeh Keyhani. She and Dr. Alex Federman, both internists and researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, conducted a random survey, by mail and by phone, of 2,130 doctors. They surveyed them from June right up to early September.

Most doctors - 63 percent - say they favor giving patients a choice that would include both public and private insurance. That's the position of President Obama and of many congressional Democrats. In addition, another 10 percent of doctors say they favor a public option only; they'd like to see a single-payer health care system. Together, the two groups add up to 73 percent.

When the American public is polled, anywhere from 50 to 70 percent favor a public option. So that means that when compared to their patients, doctors are bigger supporters of a public option.

http://www.npr.org/templates/s...


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Healy forgot that Lieberman did not win his seat as the endorsed Democrat, and is technically not a Democrat.

But that's splitting hairs, and who wants to do that when a political point is in the offing?


Lieberman (0.00 / 0)
Lieberman would be a good one to ask 'How many Americans die each year as a result of being uninsured?'. It's 18,000, minimum. If he can't get his head out of his ass on healthcare reform for the equivalent of 6 9/11 attacks a year then he's not just wrong, he's a moral leper.

Nevermind that CBO scores health care reform as shrinking the deficit, not adding to it.


 
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