These days when you say the words, “health care,” you may as well throw in “town hall”, because it seems that no matter where or how you talk about the issue, passionate people will turn out.
That was the scene Thursday afternoon at Howard Dean’s discussion on his newest book, “Howard Dean’s Prescription on Real Health Care.” Upon entering Politics and Prose, you were lucky to get a view of the former Democratic presidential nominee as people were packed between the book aisles and an overflow room had a televised Dean.
People clapped, booed and even yelled at each other, just like every good town hall we’ve seen of late. When one woman took too long to ask a question, people exchanged nervous glances, as if a fight was going to break out (thankfully, no one brought a gun).
And don’t think just because public outcry on Obamacare has been mostly negative, Dean would follow suit. He called President Barack Obama’s plan the “best bill I’ve ever seen” and said it was “perfectly suited for the American people.”
