US Barack Obama will step up his efforts to reform US healthcare on Monday with a speech to a powerful doctors’ group, but one of his priorities – the creation of public health insurance – is already under threat.
Kent Conrad, Democratic chairman of the Senate budget committee, said on Sunday there was not enough support in the Senate for the president’s plan. “I don’t believe [it] is possible with the pure public option. I don’t think the votes are there,” he said.
