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mainer

(12,013 posts)
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 05:36 PM Jan 2017

Who needs ACA? "Pay medical bills with a chicken," says GOP candidate

On Monday Lowden appeared on a local TV programme, where she was asked about a mildly eccentric suggestion she had made that patients should haggle and barter with their doctors to save money on their medical bills. As you can see from the video clip above, she replied:

"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.... In the old days 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."



https://www.theguardian.com/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/apr/21/sue-lowden-lowdencare-chickens-nevada
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Who needs ACA? "Pay medical bills with a chicken," says GOP candidate (Original Post) mainer Jan 2017 OP
In the old days... underpants Jan 2017 #1
Idiot. roamer65 Jan 2017 #2
I remember that! renate Jan 2017 #3
One of the funnier posts angstlessk Jan 2017 #4
WTF? smirkymonkey Jan 2017 #5
I think I'll take a packaged Tyson chicken to WhiteTara Jan 2017 #6
Please do! sinkingfeeling Jan 2017 #11
I'll let you know how it goes WhiteTara Jan 2017 #22
Hey doc! How about I blow you for a heart bypass? trof Jan 2017 #7
worth more than a chicken mainer Jan 2017 #9
I'm vegetarian. Can I pay with fruit, whole grains, or vegetables? milestogo Jan 2017 #8
Yeah, now let's look at what else was happening back then. The sinkingfeeling Jan 2017 #10
When America was great I guess JDC Jan 2017 #12
Order Drs to accept Chickens as payment Runningdawg Jan 2017 #13
Nobody would want to live next door to doctors anymore, Ilsa Jan 2017 #18
In the old days... politicat Jan 2017 #14
That was a long time ago Egnever Jan 2017 #15
Lower the cost of chemo to the $5.99 I'd pay for a whole chicken at the supermarket meadowlander Jan 2017 #16
Holy crap! SammyWinstonJack Jan 2017 #17
How does the dr pay his/her student loans with a chicken? Ilsa Jan 2017 #19
Who needs clothes? Just wear a barrel! Warren DeMontague Jan 2017 #20
In the old days... forgotmylogin Jan 2017 #21

underpants

(182,271 posts)
1. In the old days...
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 05:38 PM
Jan 2017

Yeah always better. You know In the old days you couldn't vote, have credit, own a home, etc.

renate

(13,776 posts)
3. I remember that!
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 05:40 PM
Jan 2017

If she'd made it to the Senate, she'd obviously have preferred to receive her salary in the form of chickens and cans of paint. And her doctors could have paid back their student loans with bits of string.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
4. One of the funnier posts
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 05:50 PM
Jan 2017

KuchenCake 22 Apr 2010 1:57

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So this lady runs a casino.

I would love to see what a slot machine that takes chickens looks like.

And I'm imagining croupiers pushing piles of chickens across the green baize to whomever wins at craps.

sinkingfeeling

(51,274 posts)
10. Yeah, now let's look at what else was happening back then. The
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 06:23 PM
Jan 2017

Great Depression was my grandparents time and having a doctor come to your house cost about $5. Will doctors return to those policies as well?

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
18. Nobody would want to live next door to doctors anymore,
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 08:23 PM
Jan 2017

With all the goats, llamas, rabbits, chickens, and roosters. I doubt the doctors want unvetted strangers coming in to do housework.

Stupid republucans bringing more stupid ideas.

politicat

(9,808 posts)
14. In the old days...
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 07:34 PM
Jan 2017

-- The meds available were either ineffective, toxic or addictive, and sometimes all of the above. There's a reason we've taken laudanum and mercury pills off the market.

-- Your doctor might have been trained at the equivalent of a community college, a for-profit trade school, as an apprenticeship, or not at all. Anyone could paint a shingle and call themselves a doctor.

-- Even routine surgeries were often fatal. A burst appendix or ectopic pregnancy had a better than even chance of killing. Without blood transfusions, sterile surgery, antibiotics and imaging, doing nothing was often safer than doing something.

-- What interventions were available ranged from useless but harmless to let's make this worse! Dehydrated? Let's make you vomit more! Blood loss from a wound? Let's add to it by opening another vein! Burns? Let's add a blister or some acid over the top.

Fuck the old days. The old days were miserable.

meadowlander

(4,358 posts)
16. Lower the cost of chemo to the $5.99 I'd pay for a whole chicken at the supermarket
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 07:44 PM
Jan 2017

and you have yourself a deal Sue.

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
19. How does the dr pay his/her student loans with a chicken?
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 08:32 PM
Jan 2017

What do I give the lab tech? The lab? The bloodbank? The pharmacist? The nurse? The receptionist? The clean-up crew?

More stupid ideas from stupid republicans.

forgotmylogin

(7,496 posts)
21. In the old days...
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 08:38 PM
Jan 2017

that chicken bought you some leeches and packet of aspirin powder with cocaine in it.

I sincerely doubt the hospital will let you pay for your MRI with livestock, lady.

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