Cash will once again be King....until the government makes it illegal to buy food with cash.
Eat a candy bar your O’Care premiums go up everytime.
It’s like the 5th Amendment - whatever is attributed to you can and will be used against you.
“Cash will once again be King....until the government makes it illegal to buy food with cash.”
Actually, it would be great to barter medical advice for things like house painting, plumbing, landscaping etc. Physicians during the Great Depression took all kinds of ‘alternative payment’. I’m sure, however, barter is somehow illegal, since the IRS wouldn’t know how to deal with it. Also, the insurance companies would find a way to not cover you for malpractice if you were working in this manner.