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ABC's White House correspondent Jake Tapper traveled with Barack Obama to Medina Ohio to listen to his pep rally against the insurance industry. The President's poster patient was Natoma Canfield, a cleaning woman who had to cancel her coverage, even though she had breast cancer, because her premium was hiked by 40%. Canfield was supposed to introduce Obama at his rally but could not attend: "She was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with leukemia," Tapper told us.
Tapper tackled the President after his speech in order to ask how his legislation could have improved Canfield's prognosis. "Because she would be a part of a million people who are in a pool her rates would be lowered." CBS had White House correspondent Chip Reid cover the same rally. He checked with Republicans opponents of the bill and they seemed to agree that Canfield would be helped--but only eventually: "Most of it does not go into effect for another four years."
ABC turned to the vote in the House of Representatives. Jonathan Karl counted 37 Democrats who voted against the House's version of the legislation and are now being pressed to approve the Senate version; a smaller number supported the House bill but may reject the Senate's because "it does not do enough to restrict abortion funding." Karl concluded: "Here is a tea leaf for you. Dennis Kucinich has for weeks been firmly saying that he is against this bill" because it rejects the public option. "Today when he was asked if he still opposes it, he said only No comment."
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