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. [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.
— Sue Lowden (R), the front-running challenger to Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), suggesting that health care could be paid for using the barter system without estimating how many chickens it would take to pay off an appendectomy.
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There’s some hilarious stuff going around Twitter about this. “Ask your doctor if a live chicken is right for him.” “Doc, I’m a little low on chickens this month. Will you accept #demonsheep instead?” “My new post: the cost of health procedures, in live chickens – and the trucks needed to haul them.” “But seriously, I have a toothache, no dental insurance (nor any other medical insurance), and no chickens. Suggestions?” “Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it was a wing-nut that didn’t want to pay for someone else’s healthcare.”
I can just imagine the look on my doctor’s face if I offer him a gaggle of geese for my in-office A1C test tomorrow. LOL