Olbermann: Lieberman Under Influence Of Insurance Companies
KEITH OLBERMANN: Two months ago, Lieberman offered different rationales including the public options's supposed unpopularity with the public. Except a new NBC News poll today finding that 73% of Americans think that people should have the choice of a public option. In his own state, 68% favor the public option, including 83% of Democrats, 73% of independents--and all those Republicans who already have one. But his own state has other constituents--bigger people, if you will. Connecticut is insurance-company Ground Zero. Lieberman has gotten more than a million dollars in the last five years from the health insurance and medical sectors—a million that we know of.
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