And one of the things we will do when we’re one nation is to end the moral outrage of 44 million people without health insurance in the richest country in the world, 9 million children whose parents can’t take them to the doctor when they get sick ’cause they can’t pay the bill. I’m gonna do that, and also help the millions who have insurance that can’t pay it, by creating national health insurance pools like the ones members of Congress get our insurance from.

— Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), during his run for president in 2004 — as a Democrat — when he supported a public option as part of any health care reform effort, TPM reports.