WASHINGTON – Independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman
says he expects to support the Democrats' health care legislation as
long as any government-run insurance plan stays out of the bill.
Lieberman has been a question mark on the health care legislation
for months. To win him over, Senate leaders said late Monday they were
backing away from a Medicare expansion Lieberman opposed. They already
had dropped a full-blown government insurance program.
Lieberman
told reporters Tuesday that if the Medicare expansion and government
insurance plan are gone, "I'm going to be in a position where I can say
what I've wanted to say all along: that I'm ready to vote for health care reform."
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