Congressman Weiner on the Medicare buy-in:
"Extending this successful program to those between 55 and 64, a plan I proposed in July, would be the largest expansion of Medicare in 44 years and would perhaps get us on the path to a single payer model," he said. "Medicare provides health care to all Americans over 65 and has an overhead of barely 1%. In a debate that hasn’t focused enough on how to genuinely contain costs and deliver affordable health care, this is one idea I like a lot."
"I think it is not fair to simply say they're abandoning the public option. What you're looking at is trade-offs, which in fact at the end of the day may be stronger than the very weak public options that both the House and the Senate have already passed."
QUIET! Lieberman needs something to shit on today.