Obama Gives Health Care Reform Speech at University of Maryland

President Barack Obama continued his nationwide health care reform tour today by paying a visit to the University of Maryland in an attempt to rally youthful supporters behind his proposed overhaul of the current health care system. The Washington Post is reporting that Obama relied on relevant statistics to appeal to the younger generation of adults who are currently affected by the inadequacies of the health care system.

The University of Maryland expressed an overwhelming amount of support for Obama, which was evidenced by the mass wave of supporters who gave a standing ovation before the President had even arrived to make his speech. Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley described Obama's health care reform speech as historic and the students in attendance showed a tremendous amount of support for Obama's clarification of his position.

President Obama spoke to those in attendance in an effort to clarify how his proposed policies would have an effect on young adults. During his speech, he said, "More than one-third of all young adults have trouble paying their medical debts. In the United States, nobody should go broke because they get sick. The time has finally come to provide affordable, accessible, quality health care to every single American."