Many people who didn't have a ticket to President Obama's town hall forum in Belgrade - but who are passionate about the healthcare debate - turned out to express their differing points of view.

Many of the people were protesting the President's proposals, including the Bozeman Tea Party and other groups that are completely opposed to government-run health care of any kind.

Tom Tuck of the Gallatin Campaign For Liberty said, "We need to go back to a system where it's totally free and people have the choice, and the insurance industry is back to the simple area of just providing insurance."

When asked if he believes that healthcare is a "right" or a "privilege," local physican David McKalip explained, "Healthcare is a service that people buy in this country. When we talk about healthcare as a right we are missing the point. Healthcare is a valuable service that people pay for using free market economics not a government takeover, not logging the insurance companies with mandated profits that they're going to get."

Nurse Linda Prescott said, "I am 'o-gainst' Obama care, I feel it is not health care, it's going to be the ruination of the country. They have tried this system in other countries and it does not work."

There were also groups providing varying degrees of support for the President's proposals. Carson Taylor, a candidate for the Bozeman City Commission, believes that the President and his reform efforts are on the right track.

Taylor said, "We've tried to do it in a way that hasn't worked, and it's getting worse. If you think of Hillary Clinton's attempt, it failed and since then healthcare has gotten harder to get. It's gotten more expensive. Things are going downhill instead of up. We've got to learn from our friends and neighbors across the world that we can do things much more efficiently and much better than we have in this country."

Linda Kenoyer advocates a single-payer heathcare system, and she said, "I think he's perfectly capable of dealing with healthcare reform and I think it's time for him to consider how we can get to what he has admitted several times would be the best if we were starting from scratch."

Konoyer says a single payer system is what Washington should be creating from scratch, and although she supports the President, she believes that single-payer should have more prominence in the healthcare debate.