Obama to Tout ‘Public Option’ in Speech to Congress

Right now it is crucial to fight President Obama’s proposed public option.  Read the excerpt from the below Washington Post article about what the Democrats want to do with our healthcare.

President Obama signaled that he would extol the value of a “public option” in health insurance reform when he addresses Congress Wednesday night on the issue but that he would stop short of threatening to veto a bill that does not include the provision.

Obama’s much-anticipated nationally televised speech to a joint session of Congress at 8 p.m. Eastern time is aimed at providing details and clarification on where he stands as he attempts to push through an overhaul of a system that he says threatens to drag down the U.S. economy over time if left unchanged.

But as he put the finishing touches on his speech Wednesday in hopes of rallying Congress to pass a health-care reform bill this year, lawmakers continued struggling to reach consensus on some of the toughest issues in the debate, including the government-run, or public, insurance option.