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'Bring A Chicken To The Doctor'

inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
edited April 2010 in A Moving Train
Finally, someone gets it...got cancer..? Pay the doctor with a chicken...problem solved...

Lowden Doubles Down On Health-Care-By-Barter: 'Bring A Chicken To The Doctor' (VIDEO)
Rachel Slajda | April 20, 2010, 5:49PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_1U4r8m ... r_embedded

Sue Lowden, the front-running Republican challenger to Sen. Harry Reid, yesterday doubled down on her idea that health care could be paid for using the barter system.

Last week, when Lowden suggested "that bartering is really good," it seemed that she may have been talking about haggling prices and just had her vocab mixed up. It happens to everyone.

But yesterday, on a local news program, Lowden seemed to double down on the idea. Asked whether the statement made her seem disconnected, she shot back that it's Reid who's disconnected for not knowing "that this is already happening in our state."

"Let's change the system and talk about what the possibilities are. I'm telling you that this works. You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days, our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor. They would say I'll paint your house," she said. "[That's] what people would do to get health care with their doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people."

"I'm not backing down from that system," she added.

Reid's campaign blasted the video clip out to reporters this afternoon (subject line: "Seriously ... Has Sue Lowden Lost Her Mind?). Watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9o8lVWW ... r_embedded

Lowden went on to say that barter "is not even mentioned in my plan" and said it's just an alternative she was discussing at a town hall meeting.

The TPM Polltracker Average, in a matchup between Reid and Lowden, shows Lowden leading Reid 52.1% to 38.2%.

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Comments

  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Nothing helps a doctor replay hundreds of thousands of dollars in school loans, office overhead and malpractice insurance than a chicken.
    My whole life
    was like a picture
    of a sunny day
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
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  • __ Posts: 6,651
    blackredyellow wrote:
    Nothing helps a doctor replay hundreds of thousands of dollars in school loans, office overhead and malpractice insurance than a chicken.
    :lol:
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    and this is the woman leading harry reid by 10 pts in nevada...sad state we are in these days when a person saying we should barter with our doctors is probably going to take reid's seat....what is this, 1820?

    so the republican health plan in nevada is either die, or give your doctor a chicken or paint their house....now i've heard it all...
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • ShawshankShawshank Posts: 1,018
    Hey, as long as the Dr still pays the tax on the value of the chicken, everything should be cool. :lol:
  • __ Posts: 6,651
    Shawshank wrote:
    Hey, as long as the Dr still pays the tax on the value of the chicken, everything should be cool. :lol:

    Of course, in this barter system, he might have to pay it with a chicken nugget.
  • inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
    scb wrote:
    Shawshank wrote:
    Hey, as long as the Dr still pays the tax on the value of the chicken, everything should be cool. :lol:

    Of course, in this barter system, he might have to pay it with a chicken nugget.


    :lol::lol::lol:
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