[AlanD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9o8lVWWDac&feature=player_embedded

What do people think? Will this help or hurt Lowden in her campagin against Reid?

How many people in Nevada have chickens? Seems ill-conceived . . Still she is a charming lady.

[counterpunch]

Hurt. A lot. But it’s good she’s taking herself out of the running before it’s too late for Nevada Republicans to choose a competent candidate to run against Reid. This is the kind of thing that turns a frontrunner into a former frontrunner.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Unfortunately, this has been tried and failed.

The IRS will demand tax payment (in US dollars) for the value of each bartered item.

[TigerBait]

My wife is from a European country with socialized medicine.
Here’s how it works: Cash.

You can wait around all day and get free care. Or you can pay
cash. It’s expected you’ll pay cash.

Lot of the medical care is done by pharmacist. Medical degrees
are four year. Lot shorter life expectancy.

Get what you pay for.

[TigerBait]

My wife is from a European country with socialized medicine.
Here’s how it works: Cash.

You can wait around all day and get free care. Or you can pay
cash. It’s expected you’ll pay cash.

Lot of the medical care is done by pharmacist. Medical degrees
are four year. Lot shorter life expectancy.

Get what you pay for.

[mylife]

HIPPA laws prevent bartering according to my Doctor.

[rockinqsranch]

I’ve often thought about the America that was before the Socialist Teddy Kennedy screwed it all up with his cohorts in the Socialist/Democrat Party back in the sixties.

I’d love to see a return to the old days with government the Hell out of our lives, our healthcare, protecting our freedoms instead of taking them from us.

I would think Lowden is reflecting on that America that was, and should be again as the laws that have come about at the hand of the Leftists, and their political sycophants are mostly contrary to the supreme law that is the Constitution IMO.

[mad_as_he$$]

There are lots of chickens in Nevada. Cock fighting is a very big deal and there are several large egg operations. More coming in since Kalifornia is running them out of the chicken business. Heck most of my neighbors have 3-10 chickens.

[HiTech RedNeck]

In a rambling way, she might be trying to say that onerous regulation would drive a significant amount of health care under the table. Nobody would try to pay a doctor with a chicken today. But this bumbling makes George W. Bush look like he had the lithe tongue of an auctioneer.

[Mountain Mary]

What is happening with Danny Tarkanian?

[Jack Hydrazine]

I wonder which Doctor he was mentioning?

The 9th?

Maybe the 10th?

Or possibly the 11th? (the newest Doctor)

[gidget7]

Truth is a lot of small town doctors (yes there ares till a few) in poorer areas have done this for years. This new insurance bill, which is what it is, would make that illegal, just as it would make it illegal for medicare patients to pay what medicare doesn’t cover in order to get better care or care that isn’t covered.

While not many may care about this bartering thing, the very poor and some tribes have always done it that way, and they want to keep it, rather than lose their local doc!

[Fiji Hill]

My mother, who grew up on a farm in Orange County, Calif. remembers patients offering chickens as payment for a doctor’s services.

[af_vet_rr]

What do people think?

I thought it was an Onion article, to be honest. I'd be a little worried about a return to the old days of medicine - back then they used to proscribe Laudanum for quite a few things.

If I was a doctor, I'd be pissed at her for even suggesting something like this. I'm pretty sure she's not paying her mortgage with chickens.

If I were still a Republican, I'd also be pissed at her for saying crap like this since it feeds right into the stereotypes some have for the right.