re: #108 Killgore Trout

Here: Joe Lieberman’s Medicare Dodge

In a recent column for the Hartford Courant, Lieberman cited the rising costs of Medicare to justify his opposition to expanding the government’s role in health care. But in 2000, when he was Al Gore’s running mate, Lieberman campaigned on a platform of offering everyone 55 and older an option to “buy-in” to Medicare. That proposal—which was a central part of the Gore-Lieberman campaign’s health care plan—essentially would have created a robust public option for people aged 55 to 65.

Yep, that’s what I thought I remembered reading.

It’s hard to see this as anything other than a sleazy move. I don’t know if the stories that he’s consumed with anger over the Ned LaMont situation are true, but it does seem like this is more than simply a reasoned change of mind.