Top WH Official: Health Care Still a "Jump Ball"

A top White House official intimately involved in the on-going health care negotiations with House and Senate Democrats told Fox late Friday prospects for victory on the president's signature initiative have improved but "it's still a jump ball."

That declaration confirms the White House and Democratic leaders lack the votes to pass health care in the House and undercuts, if ever so slightly, the declaration Friday from Press Secretary Robert Gibbs that President Obama finally feels the wind at his back on the issue.

"The President feels some momentum on this issue," Gibbs said. "I think the President believes that while many thought this issue was going to go away or was dead a few weeks ago has gotten new life."