{"id":83084,"date":"2009-12-15T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/busted-lieberman-caught-flip-flopping-on-medicare-buy-in-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-15T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T13:02:00","slug":"busted-lieberman-caught-flip-flopping-on-medicare-buy-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/83084","title":{"rendered":"BUSTED: Lieberman Caught Flip-Flopping On Medicare Buy-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Reid caved to Joe Lieberman last night night, and dropped from healthcare reform a scheme that would allow private individuals the opportunity to buy into Medicare.<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama told Reid to cut a deal with the former, but estranged, democratic Veep candidate at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>Why did Joe Lieberman decided to cause trouble? Probably because he hates his old friends. After all, just three months ago, he favored the Medicare buy-in. And it&#8217;s on video. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memeorandum.com\">Memeorandum<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/health-care\/video-watch-lieberman-endorse-medicare-buy-in-three-months-ago\/\">WhoRunsGov<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HIb13mYoy0Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HIb13mYoy0Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/busted-lieberman-caught-flip-flopping-on-medicare-buy-in-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/harry-reid-caves-to-lieberman-on-healthcare-reform-2009-12\">Harry Reid Caves To Lieberman On Healthcare Reform<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/its-not-just-lieberman-several-democrats-are-freaked-out-about-healthcare-reform-passing-2009-12\">It&#8217;s Not Just Lieberman: Several Democrats Are Freaked Out About Healthcare Reform Passing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/desperate-white-house-tells-harry-reid-to-cut-any-deal-it-can-with-holdout-lieberman-2009-12\">Desperate White House Tells Harry Reid To Cut Healthcare Deal With Holdout Lieberman<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/0vnhXgTLNY8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Reid caved to Joe Lieberman last night night, and dropped from healthcare reform a scheme that would allow private individuals the opportunity to buy into Medicare. Barack Obama told Reid to cut a deal with the former, but estranged, democratic Veep candidate at all costs. Why did Joe Lieberman decided to cause trouble? Probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}