Fix Health Care by Bartering Chickens
Sue Lowden, a Nevada Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, has got a doozey of a way to reform health care. If you get a check up from a doctor, give him a chicken as payment. What a novel idea. I'm all for it. Bring back the barter system. If you get a heart transplant, paint the doctor's house.
Our forefathers in the rural areas used the barter system, not like those big city dudes who used money. So I'm all for this. Screw the doctors. Why should they make money? So what if they spent 12 years in medical school and as an intern. Why should they expect to buy a car and raise their families? But I'm not against the doctor I'm against the health insurance. Those death panelists get way too much.
This idea could catch on and it can be used for more than medicine. If I want a new car (like a Mercedes or BMW), I can give them a cow in trade. If I need a yacht, I can trade an old comic book (not too old) for it. I can give the IRS two chickens to pay for my taxes. All in all, it sounds like a good idea.
This is another brilliant idea from the radical Republicans. This comes from the same people who won't recognize the president's official birth certificate, and who say that the Earth doesn't rotate about the sun. Are these people for real? Farmer Joe might be able to barter for small things, but not brain surgery. Wake up; it's time to get real.
Heres the link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/chickens-for-checkups-dem_n_546762.html
Some Democrats put up a site where can "write a letter to Sue Lowden with your ailment and what you're willing to trade" at http://www.dscc.org/chickens
And somebody figured out exactly how many chickens it would take for a tonsilectomy and other procedures at http://www.lowdenplan.com/
Have a Great day.
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Comments
I wish we could go back to barter. So many people are in poverty and starving while others have so many possessions they don't have room for them. But singling out doctors I don't believe will work. If doctors are paid in chickens, then why not politicians? Maybe if she looked at it that way she would see the problem.
Posted by: TawTew the Naturally Perfumed | May 4, 2010 04:11 AM
Trade a fine chicken
to that doctor bloke
make sure it's healthy
so your chicken don't choke!
Posted by: M J Lover | May 5, 2010 05:07 AM
Politics has gotten so weird. I can't even tell what's real and what's a take off anymore.
Posted by: Marie Gilbert | May 6, 2010 12:50 AM
Now you're getting things mixed up again. She's talking about doctors making too much money. If they didn't demand so much dough poor people could get treatments. That's what this is about.
Posted by: Tom T. Trucker | May 7, 2010 06:10 AM
People aren't getting health care that's why President Obama signed a bill for it and Congress approved it. People need help. If doctors worked for chickens that cost as much as their service what would they do a thousand chickens?
Posted by: Lorien Loveshade | May 8, 2010 04:38 PM
Politics is getting sillier and sillier. So what do you pay a doctor if you've got chicken pox?
Posted by: Dapne | May 11, 2010 05:31 AM
How many chickens would it cost to have an operation to sew your fingers together so you can't type these blogs? That's what I want to know.
Posted by: Rev. Bootie | May 12, 2010 02:45 AM
Rev. Bootie maybe you're the one who should go for an operation.
Posted by: Marie Gilbert | May 13, 2010 05:56 AM
Are you calling health insurance death panelists? Sue is making a point that medicine costs too much and people can't afford it. Obama's plan forces people to get medical insurance even if they can't afford it. That's what she's talking about.
Posted by: Christian Andy | May 16, 2010 01:25 PM
I think he's being ironic.
Posted by: Marie Gilbert | May 17, 2010 05:35 AM
"This idea could catch on and it can be used for more than medicine."
Why not?
Posted by: Why not? | May 18, 2010 05:50 AM
You moral generates don't care anything about people's health. You're all sick. You're a bunch of beastiality and pedophiles and drug pushers and should all be shot dead.
Posted by: Harlen Thomas III | May 21, 2010 01:04 AM