The Lieberman story: "Senate Democrats who thought they had found a workable compromise learned otherwise from [Joe] Lieberman over the weekend. Lieberman threatened Sunday to join Republicans in opposing health care legislation if it permits uninsured individuals as young as 55 to purchase Medicare coverage."
We've played you audio sound bites of Obama saying throughout his career of words that expanding Medicare and lowering the mandatory age at which you can qualify... Remember, Medicare and broke, and just a year ago people were talking about raising the eligibility age in order to save money. Now everybody's talking about -- Obama and others -- lowering it to 55.
OBAMA APRIL 2007: Let's say that we -- L-l-let's say that I proposed a plan that, uh, moved to a single-payer system... L-l-let's say Medicare plus. It would be, essentially, everybody can buy into Medicare, for example.
OBAMA FEBRUARY 2004:
would allow 55 to 64-year-olds to buy into the Medicare system.
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