Yarmuth Town Hall Draws Capacity Crowd

Congressman John Yarmuth led a sometimes contentious discussion on healthcare in a town hall meeting at Central High SchoolWednesday. The meeting was Yarmuth's first and only in-person town hall of the congressional recess. Nearly 15 hundred people showed up for the meeting, and the much-publicized and outspoken dissenters who have appeared at meetings across the country were a vocal minority."Booing's not going to change my explanation of it," said Yarmuth. "You can be against it. I understand there are people who don't support it, but I was asked to explain it and that's what I'm trying to do."After drawing some boos for expressing support of a government-provided public insurance option, Yarmuth addressed a claim that the plan would put private insurers out of business."Let me put it this way," he said. "We have…we spend in this country billions and billions of dollars every year on bottled water and we have a pretty good public option to that. It's turn on your tap. People still buy public water. They still by bottled water."Yarmuth says the future of the public option could be determined by the president, who will address both chambers of Congress next Wednesday. To hear the full audio of Yarmuth's town hall, click here.