ID a Must to Attend Health Care Debate

The health care debate is as fierce as ever. But the town hall meetings have regained some measure of civility.

That's because the hosts, in this case U.S. Rep. Gene Green, are carding attendees at the door to ensure only those living in his district can ask questions.

Green says in previous meetings the sign-in sheets indicate 60 percent of attendees were not his constituents.

"After each of them," Green said, "I had my constituents come up and say, 'I didn't ask a question because everybody was shouting.' And so we had to make a decision and the priority is our constituents."

Green, a Houston Democrat, favors a public insurance plan option.

But most Republicans, like US Rep. Michael McCaul, who represents the Katy area, oppose the so-called public option.

"There are ways to fix this," said McCaul, "without creating this whole new government bureaucracy that's being proposed right now."

-- Read the Entire Health Care Bill: http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090714/aahca.pdf