Obama soon to publicly shed light on new healthcare reform bill and its proposals

As many of you may already know through its prominent coverage by various news networks, the President is scheduled to make a public speech tonight addressing his current strides towards healthcare reform.

On Tuesday Robin Roberts of ABC News was able to get an exclusive interview pertaining to this speech and what Americans can expect to hear. Unfortunately, ABC added the video minutes before I created this post and disabled any embedding feature, so I'll have to link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl0_CSs43OY

The key question at the tip of everyone's tongue was the first Robin asked: Will the public know whether or not the President is willing to sign a healthcare reform bill without a public option?

Suffice to say the President's response was a bit inconclusive, as he merely noted that "they will have a lot of clarity about what I think is the best way to move forward."

President Obama expounded on the fact however that he has already "given some broad principals and parameters" about his bill proposal, that it should not increase the deficit, it will cover the uninsured, and have insurance reforms so that insured citizens have better protection.

BBC News wrote an article about the video which can be read below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8244831.stm

The President states his bill proposals need to be concluded upon in an urgent manner, and with cooperation between the Senate and the House he expects legislation to commence by the end of the year. According to the BBC, President Obama has stated the speech will be directed towards the public as well as Congress. He notes "The intent of the speech is to make sure that the American people are clear exactly what it is that we are proposing," and "to make sure that Democrats and Republicans understand that I'm open to new ideas, that we're not being rigid and ideological about this thing, but we do intend to get something done this year."

But the BBC concludes in their article that compromise proposals have already been drawn in the Senate by Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, and in the House, a "prominent Democrat" has stated openly that he will not support a publicly run insurance "scheme," possibly alluding to the fact that there is still an amount of mistrust over these proposals, and that legislative gridlock may presume. (BBC, 2009)

Others are confident however, and feel there remains a general consensus in Washington that reform measures will be approved, specifically in correspondence between the President, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, at least according to Jake Tapper of ABC News in his article: Pelosi and Reid Tell President: We Have the Votes; President Wants Bill Passed Soon, which can be read below:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/pelosi-and-reid-tell-president-we-have-the-votes-president-wants-bill-passed-soon.html

Tapper writes that each majority leader feels confident in his or her relations, despite recent political clashing and discordance over such issues, that both the Senate and House will be able to pass healthcare reform.

Perhaps with those considerations the President it treating it as a "go-ahead" to deliver his speech and seal the deal. Only time will tell, tune in for the speech tonight at 8 P.M.