“The president will cut through all the noise coming out of Washington,” a White House official said of the short trip to the Largo, Md., campus, which is a 14-mile car ride from the White House.

“He’ll walk through the benefits that have already strengthened insurance protections for the 85 percent of Americans who already have health insurance coverage today, and he will explain what new benefits lie ahead for those Americans who don’t have insurance today,” the official said.

And, Obama plans to get into the weeds of explaining how new health exchanges will work and what minimum standards each insurance plan in an exchange will have to meet under the law.