Does the President believe that individuals and their health care providers should make those decisions or the government?
MR. GIBBS: As he said in New Hampshire, not to belabor my answer again, he was very clear in New Hampshire that those are decisions that are made by the individual patients and their health care provider. What we want to do, and I think what the President was pretty clear about, is let’s also not have those decisions made by health care bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats that have, as the President said, decided for 12.5 million people that they’re — they can’t get an insurance policy based on what some one of them determines a preexisting condition. Let’s not have a health insurance company decide that they get to change the rules on their premiums if somebody gets too sick.
