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Lieberman Presents Health Care Plan.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2003

By John A. MacDonald, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 3--SILVER SPRING, Md.--Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman offered a step-by-step plan Tuesday to reduce the number of uninsured Americans by three-fourths while spending less than all but one of his major rivals for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination.

Lieberman said his proposal would first provide health coverage to all uninsured children. But some of his proposals for adults could take as long as a decade to take effect, aides said.

Seeking to make a virtue of a plan that is incremental and relatively frugal, the Connecticut senator said he wants to build on what works in the nation's current health care system, fix what does not and do so "at...

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