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Remarks by the President on the Affordable Care Act  Location:
Largo, MD  THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Maryland! (Applause.) Hello,
PGCC! (Applause.) It's good to be back in PG County. (Applause.)
Give it up for one of the hardest-working, most effective
governors in the country, Governor Martin O'Malley. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: I love you back. It's wonderful being here.
(Applause.)     There's been a lot of things said, a lot of
misinformation, a lot of confusion. But there are few things
more fundamental to the economic security of the middle class
and everybody who's trying to get into the middle class than
health care.     And I remember looking around that emergency
room and thinking -- what about the parents who aren't that
lucky? What about the parents who get hit with a bill of $20,000
or $30,000 and they've got no idea how to pay for it? What about
those parents whose kids have a chronic illness like asthma and
have to keep on going back to