President Obama spoke for about 15 minutes today about what will happen if and when the federal government shuts down, thanks to the Republican Tea Party that would rather destroy the country than accept legitimately-passed legislation, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, that provides health insurance for 30+ million more Americans.

Oh, and President Obama said Obamacare is moving forward:

So let me be clear about this. An important part of the Affordable Care Act takes effect tomorrow no matter what Congress decides to do today. The Affordable Care Act is moving forward. That funding is already in place. You can’t shut it down. This is a law that passed both houses of Congress; a law that bears my signature; a law that the Supreme Court upheld as constitutional; a law that voters chose not to repeal last November; a law that is already providing benefits to millions of Americans in the form of young people staying on their parents’ plan until they’re 26, seniors getting cheaper prescription drugs, making sure that insurance companies aren't imposing lifetime limits when you already have health insurance, providing rebates for consumers when insurance companies are spending too much money on overhead instead of health care. Those things are already happening.

Starting tomorrow, tens of millions of Americans will be able to visit HealthCare.gov to shop for affordable health care coverage. So Americans who’ve lived for years in some cases with the fear that one illness could send them into bankruptcy, Americans who’ve been priced out of the market just because they’ve been sick once, they’ll finally be able to afford coverage -- quality coverage -- many of them for the first time in their lives.

I plan to sign up tomorrow and will do so in Eric Cantor's, Ted Cruz' and a few other Republicans' names. 

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