President Barack Obama is back on the road pitching health care reform.

His latest town hall turned emotional Wednesday when a woman named Debbie said she had kidney cancer and could not get health care.

"We're going to give you information and we'll see what we can do to help," Obama told her. "I don't want you to feel like you are alone out there."

The president has put health care reform at the top of his domestic "to do" list.

He took questions in person and online at a town hall in northern Virginia.

Before the event, reporters grilled White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs because the administration decided which online questions would be asked in advance.

"I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency," reporter Chip Reid said.

"You haven't even heard the questions," Gibbs responded.

Reid told Gibbs it is not about the question, but about the process.

"Even if it's a tough question, it's coming from someone who was invited or was screened, or the question was screened," he said.

Gibbs replied by asking Reid to postpone further discussion until the end of the town hall meeting.

Congress will resume health care debates when they return to Capitol Hill next week.

The president says he wants a bill on his desk by the end of the year.