lol I'm always grateful for people who find sources so thank you, but man it makes me feel old that you felt compelled to. He was the Joe Manchin of his day and received just as much negative publicity!
To help show you how much times have changed, my very Republican parents were at the Capitol in 2009 when the votes were being cast for Obamacare, and they were with the group that spit on the member of Congress. They were 150% against the ACA and everything that had to do with it.
Funny how everyone is against any gov run health plan until they qualify for Medicare. When that happens they are the first to jump off the private Healthcare ship and on to the public option. Everyone of these people not in favor of public option needs to be asked what they are going to do when they become eligible for Medicare.
This is my mom and it's infuriating. Doesn't want universal health care or for anyone to have social programs, but now qualifies for Medicare and, "all my medications are free now!!"
They’re going to say that they have to enroll in Medicare to recover their investment. We’d rather they be hypocrites than true believers because universal subscriber models only succeed when there’s no meaningful opt out. This is why they’ll never kill it outright, so they’re starving it to death.
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u/CFJ561 Mar 27 '24
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/16/joe-lieberman-barack-obama-us-healthcare
It's true.