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POTUS: Obamacare 'Here to Stay'

Gives speech five days ahead of Oct. 1 start date.

Less than a week before the Affordable Care Act takes effect, President Obama touched down in Maryland to speak “in honest terms” about what the legislation will mean for consumers. "Five days from now, on Oct. 1, millions of Americans who don’t have health insurance because they’ve been priced out of the market...will finally be able to buy [it]” he said. Alluding to Sen. Ted Cruz’s 21-hour anti-Obamacare speech, he dismissed the “noise” coming from Washington and assured listeners that Obamacare is “here to stay.” For the 51 percent of Americans who disapprove of it (according to a recent survey from CBS/New York Times), it’s already been here too long.