U.S. David Scott (D-Smyrna) doesn't sit on any of the three U.S. House committees weaving together health care reform legislation, but the congressman seems to be more deeply embroiled than most of his Washington, D.C., colleagues in the heated debate over reform.

On Saturday, the debate came to the doorsteps of his Smyrna district office on Concord Road. A rally in support of government reform was organized there by the Cobb chapter of the liberal advocacy group, MoveOn.org, in association with the Cobb NAACP, and the Atlanta chapter of the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network.

An estimated 60 people from those organizations linked arms to form a human chain, indicating that they're "connected, committed and resolved" to insist that all U.S. citizens have quality health care. They wore blue shirts to show unity.

Marsha Nettles Wosu, Cobb MoveOn.org spokeswoman, said the rally was organized because those in support of the Democratic Party's proposals for health care reform are the silent majority in the country.

"The dialogue about health care is being distorted by a few, really loud and aggressive voices," she said. "We need to make sure that those people who are for true reform, change and equitably health care for everybody, are heard."

She said that the embattled Scott has their support. In recent weeks, the congressman has had a swastika spray-painted on a sign at his Smyrna office and made headlines for sounding off against a doctor at a town hall meeting in Douglasville on Aug. 1.

The current health care debate is also personal for Wosu. She said her friend had to put off her wedding because the groom-to-be got sick and was placed in a hospice.

"She wasn't allowed to help participate in the decision-making process because she wasn't his wife," Wosu said. "So she's going through this weird, horrible nightmare."

D.S. Brown, 38, is an information technology manager who drove from Suwanee with his nephew, Christopher DuBois, 12, of Decatur, to attend the rally. Brown has blogged, started a Facebook group and posted videos online in support of the Democrats' health care reform proposals.

"My health care costs are spiraling out of control," he said.

"I took my daughter to the doctor last week, and I went two weeks ago, and the fact of the matter is, I'm getting mail in that says I owe over $100 for lab and blood work. Things that I didn't pay for before, and I have the most expensive, complete health care that my company can provide."

Through the late morning and early afternoon, those rallying for reform held up signs in support of the Democrats' health care reform proposals at the corner of Concord and Brown roads. One sign read, "It's broken Let's Fix It Together."

Vehicles driving by honk their horns in support. However, other vehicles honked at another group of activists that stood only 40-yards away on Concord Road in support of the Republican Party's efforts to block more government involvement in heath care.

Many of the people in the sizeable group held up signs opposing Scott. One such sign with several pictures of Scott, presumably from his Aug. 1 town hall meeting read, "If David Scott Is This Angry Over A Health Care Question Just Think How Mad He Will Be When His Career Ends In 2010." Another sign read, "Just Say No To Obamacare."

There were no reported incidents between the two groups.

Scott has said that he supports health care reform, but wants to slow down the current legislation.

That isn't good enough for two of his constituents, Wendy and Scott Allen of Smyrna, who both work in the airline industry. They're against the government's reform plans and call on Scott to conduct a town hall meeting on health care reform in Cobb.

"We don't want government-run health care," Wendy Allen said. "We do want health care to be fixed, but we don't want government to take it over."

Those at the opposition rally said they belonged to no organization and simply read online ads that asked people to go to their congressman's office and protest.

Teresa Ott, a freelance web developer from Douglas County, said she's against government intervention of health care, but thought the people standing a few yards away had a few valid points about health insurance reform.

"Hopefully, whatever incarnation of health care reform will get defeated," she said. "But, when that happens the Republicans and Democrats - I'm neither - they need to get their act together and do health insurance reform."