WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama this week will defend his deeply controversial bid to push a public health care option, which would be offered alongside existing private insurance plans, the White House said Sunday.
Obama, whose plans to remake health care have been squeezed during a summer marked by volatile town hall meetings in which conservatives railed against changing the system, will address a rare joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday and try to breath new life into his reform effort.
Congress and American television viewers after the address will know "exactly where the president stands, exactly what he thinks we have to do to get health care reform this year. And he intends to do it," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told ABC's "This Week" program.
"The president strongly believes that we have to have (a public) option like this to provide choice and competition, to provide a check on insurance companies," Gibbs added.
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