Obama to endorse public plan in high-stakes speech - MarketWatch
Obama to back public plan in high-stakes health speech
President to lay out reform goals, tell Americans how plan will work for them
By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Facing steep stakes and declining poll numbers, President Barack Obama on Wednesday night will appear in a rarely used, high-profile forum to drive home his top domestic policy priority.
Obama will address a joint session of Congress, with TV cameras sending his speech around the nation and world, to outline his goals for health-care reorganization.
Obama will press for a government-run insurance option as part of a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health-care system and explain to Americans how he wants to change one of the country's biggest and most wide-reaching industries.
"The president, I think, has a few main goals tonight," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday morning. "To speak clearly to the American people about what's in health-care reform; for those that are fortunate to have insurance, to demonstrate for them that his plan will bring them security and stability; and for those that don't have health insurance, that we'll provide an affordable way for them to get accessible insurance."
Continue...
Comments