Uninsured father, Lee Stranahan wants to know why Joe Lieberman really opposed public option for health car (h/t math4barack):Hey Joe, why do you really oppose the public option for health care? You SAID it's because 'there's plenty of competition in the private insurance market." But that's not true at all. Keep in mind, that a Research 2000 poll of CT voters and the public option, as BarbinMD reminded DKos yesterday: Do you favor or oppose creating a government-administered health insurance option that anyone can purchase to compete with private insurance plans? Favor Oppose Not Sure All 68 21 11 So who is he representing? Lieberman has accepted $2,395,369 in donations from the health sector and $1,033,402 from the insurance industry. read more....Marcy Wheeler has a great post up, Hey Reporters??? It Might Be Worth Pointing Out Lieberman Is Stupid or Lying…. It's all about Joe's justifications (lies) for being against the public option and how the media basically stands by twiddling its thumbs without debunking or bothering to question his facts & figures, which are easily debunked. After relaying all the varioius statements & misinformation spewed by Lieberman, Marcy concludes: So here’s what Joe Lieberman claims the public option will do: Be costly to taxpayersDrive up premiumsInvolve cost-shifting to private plansCreate an entitlementIncrease the national debtPut more of a tax burden on taxpayers As DDay points out, this is utter nonsense. Lieberman’s justification on this is just nonsense – the public option would SAVE money for the government, to the tune of $100 billion dollars over 10 years according to the Congressional Budget Office. It also would cost nothing to the taxpayer, being financed by individual premiums.Now, there’s the possibility that if the public option was set at Medicare +5, there might be cost shifting, if you ignored challenges to that claim, if you ignored the way insurance companies will game the system to push hig