WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says President Barack Obama will again cite a need for a public option on health insurance when he gives a prime-time speech to the nation.
Gibbs said in an interview on CBS’s “The Early Show” Wednesday that Obama wants to “speak clearly and directly to the American people about what’s in this bill for them.”
Asked if Obama was willing to abandon a government-run plan to get a bill through Congress, the spokesman replied, “No, the president tonight will talk about the public option and will talk about the need for competition” with the private insurance market.
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