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WASHINGTON, D.C. – When President Barack Obama discusses health-care reform during a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, he will offer specifics about the plan he favors, according to The Washington Post.
Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that Obama’s prime-time speech will lay out “in understandable, clear terms what our administration wants to happen with regard to health care, and what we are going to push for specifically,” the Post reported.
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The big question is whether the president will push for a government-run insurance program. The Post reported that Obama will address that issue, “setting the stage for a showdown between liberal Democrats insistent on a public option and conservative Democrats and Republicans who oppose it.”
The New York Times pointed out that presidential speeches to joint sessions of Congress – when not State of the Union-type addresses – “historically have not been routine; they are reserved to grab attention or to build the kind of bipartisan sentiment that has been mostly missing in the health debate recently.”
The last time a president made such a speech was in 2001, when President George W. Bush spoke about the war on terrorism nine days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Politico reported.
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