White House Insists "Nothing Has Changed" on Public Health Insurance Option
By Karen Travers, ABCNEWS
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took issue with reporters' questions tonight about whether the president has signaled a shift in his support for a public insurance option. Gibbs insisted "nothing has changed" in the president's position, despite Obama's remark on Saturday that the public option "is not the entirety of health care reform.
This is just one sliver of it." "The goals are choice and competition. His preference is a public option. If there are other ideas, he's happy to look at them," Gibbs said in a briefing on Air Force One en route back to Washington.
Gibbs said there has been a "boring consistency" to the White House's rhetoric on health care and challenged reporters to go back and look at the record. He turned the reporters' questions into an opportunity to question the media coverage, saying it is "one of the more curious things" he's seen.
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