December 14, 2009

Medicare Expansion has Joe sayin' No!

Now, no one is surprised that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) is vowing to vote down the health reform bill in the Senate right now.  The only surprise is why.  He has told everyone for months that he will not vote for a bill with a public, government run option.  Now, he is opposing the expansion of Medicare down to age 55. He is citing adding to the deficit and having the functionality of a public option as his two main objections.

There are many already stating that expanding medicare to age 55 is the democrats first step to providing a government run option.  Many believe that they will simply keep lowering the age to begin medicare throughout the years until finally everyone is covered by it.  Which would account for the all of a sudden, Nancy Pelosi acceptance of a bill without a "public option."

Of course, the democrats could still pull in a republican vote to get this passed. However, it seems more and more democrats do not support the medicare expansion.   Only time will tell as the bills change who will or will not support it.

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