Obama heads to Ohio to pitch health care bill

Mar 12, 2010 — USA Today

President Obama will hit the road again to drum up public support for his health care plan, this time visiting an Ohio town near Cleveland on Monday.

The White House just announced that Obama will be in Strongsville, Ohio, on March 15 to discuss health insurance. He'll appear at the Walter F. Ehrnfelt Recreation and Senior Center. No doubt the president will reprise some of the lines he used in two appearances this week in the Philadelphia and St. Louis suburbs.

As we've noted in previous stories, Obama has stressed in his campaign-style appearances that insurance companies have been hiking insurance premiums as Americans struggle to pay for and get adequate health care. The health insurance industry is hitting back with an ad campaign.

Oval colleague John Fritze has the latest on the timing of a vote in Congress on Obama's health care plan, which would expand coverage to 31 million Americans who don't have health insurance and impose regulations on the insurance industry. Seems as though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won't commit to holding a vote by March 18.