Obama to announce way forward on health care next week

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From Huffington Post:

The White House will announce next week — “probably closer to Wednesday” — the president’s preferred path forward for getting health care legislation passed, spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Friday.

“The President will take into account what he heard yesterday, work through with the team some ideas and make an announcement next week about the way forward,” Gibbs said.

Gibbs declined to get into specifics. But the widespread assumption on Capitol Hill is that Obama will address specific changes that he wants made to the Senate’s version of the legislation (beyond the proposals he set forth in his own outline this week) and that he will encourage Congress to pass those changes using reconciliation, a procedure that precludes a filibuster.

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