Strong emotions and spirited exchanges dominated a packed town-hall style meeting Saturday as a thousand residents from around San Diego County packed into a Spring Valley gymnasium to share their thoughts on health care reform.

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The meeting, hosted by Rep. Susan Davis, D-San Diego, elicited boisterous responses from both sides of the debate with people frequently interrupting speakers with applause and cheers.

The congresswoman, who supports President Barack Obama’s health care reform and held a similar town hall meeting in Hillcrest earlier this month, assured the audience that any action by Congress is in its early stages.

A few dozen residents who wanted to speak had to submit their names and were selected at random until everyone was heard.

Carlsbad resident Jeff Wangsgaard, 31, asked Davis how the government, already in trillions of dollars in debt, would pay for the proposed health care overhaul.

Debbie Cummings, who attended the meeting with her 87-year-old aunt, said she opposed a health care system entirely in the hands of the government.

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Health-care reform meeting draws packed house

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