Il y a trois mois, le sénateur indépendant Joe Lieberman semblait appuyer l'idée de permettre à des Américains âgés de 55 à 64 ans de souscrire au programme Medicare destiné aux personnes âgées, comme le laisse entendre la vidéo ci-dessous dont je publie un extrait dans le texte :
"My proposals were to basically expand the existing successful public health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid...
"When it came to Medicare I was very focused on a group - post 50, maybe more like post 55. People who have retired early, or unfortunately have been laid off early, who lose their health insurance and they're too young to qualify for Medicare.
"What I was proposing was that they have an option to buy into Medicare early and again on the premise that that would be less expensive than the enormous cost. If you're 55 or 60 and you're without health insurance and you go in to try to buy it, because you're older ... you're rated as a risk so you pay a lot of money."
La volte-face de Lieberman exaspère de nombreux démocrates, mais la Maison-Blanche n'a pas encore abandonné l'espoir d'en venir à une entente avec le sénateur du Connecticut, selon cet article de Politico.