BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Some have threatened a government shutdown if they can't shut down this law. Others have actually threatened an economic shutdown by refusing to pay America's bills if they can't delay the law. That's not going to happen as long as I'm president.</s>OBAMA: Here in Maryland, a family of four making $60,000 a year could get covered for as little as $164 a month. It's the same story across the country. In Texas, average 27- year-old making $25,000 could get covered for as little as $83 a month. In Florida, a family of four making $50,000 could get covered for as little as $104 a month. And keep in mind, the government didn't set these prices. The insurance companies, they proposed these prices because they wanted to get in with these big groups, with all these new customers. The insurance companies are saying these marketplaces, this law will work. They're putting money on the line because they think it will work. Competition, choice, transparency, all these things are keeping costs down. You know, knowing you can offer your family the security of health care, that's priceless. Now you can do it for the cost of your cable bill, probably less than your cellphone bill.</s>OBAMA: Five days.</s>OBAMA: That's a strange argument. Don't you think that's a strange argument? And the closer we get, the more desperate they get. I mean, over the last few weeks, the rhetoric has just been cranked up to a place I've never seen before. One congressman said that Obamacare is the most dangerous piece of legislation ever passed.
Barack Obama Speaks from Prince George's Community College