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“You know” it really is hard to believe anyone could be that stupid and still be able to dress themselves?
So I gotta ask: Who dresses her?
Stupid LIEbertard.
Just for the record–I don’t want to go to a docs office and sit next to a person with a chicken. It ain’t sanitary.
It USED to be a chicken but now, under the conservative health care system, it’s your firstborn.
Bobbo,
“libertarianism fails when it becomes Dogma”
The problem with Libertarians is that they don’t understand that the fascist threat to are liberties are now gigantic corporations.
Big government, who the Libertarians still fear and demand we limit, are now our only hope AGAINST the new fascists.
Worse, they want to sell what little is left of our commons off to the new fascists at fire sale prices, making the corporations and even BIGGER threat to our liberties!
I’m just happy to see a repub plan on the table. We shouldn’t criticize the chicken idea because it will discourage them from playing a role.
My doctor prefers cash but we shouldn’t judge.
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She is right. And the solution to the financial crisis is to go back to before banks existed and trade in seashells…
She is right. And the solution to the financial crisis is to go back to before banks existed and trade in seashells…
nothing like simple solutions
Greg Allen==excellent point, one that has flitted past my consciousness before but never expressly stated as you just have.
The point she is making is that we used to pay doctors directly for services rendered. Which kept costs low with a simple payment system.
In the current system we pay the insurance bureaucracy and soon the federal bureaucracy. And they only raise costs and complicate the payment system.
We now return you to your regular misguided rants.
Why is this so funny or unusual? My old college girlfriends dad was a gp in our town fairly rural about 25,000 at the time. This was in the 1980’s.
They received tons of “payments” in the form of canned goods, meat, and services. People would pay what they could cash. Then make up the difference with the above mentioned.
I remeember her mom coming home lots of times with everything from home canned goods to flowers in her arms.
Borat said, “chicken taste good”.
“A message from the Tea Party / Tim McVeigh wing of the Republican Party.”
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Nicely done Marc. You deliver insightful analysis that’s sorely missing from the likes great commentators like Jay Leno. Why don’t you go and smoke a bowl of kind bud and come up with more gems, um kay?
#3 Greg
Corporations are not the problem. It is the people in them. Lacking ethics and compassion, blinded by avarice and left unchecked by the government.
Asking the government, whom are plutocrats and most have corporations of their own or have advised for, to be left in charge of policing unethical corporations is a classic disaster in the making. (Dare I say fox guarding the hen house after the video above)
Once again you, and so many others, operate under the dream-like state of “hoping” our corrupt system of governance will do the right thing. It cannot now. It will never be able to again. The government is a tool box full of broken, bent and rusty tools. No one, no matter how skilled, can repair tools in this condition.
We can only take them to the scrapper to be recycled and MAKE NEW TOOLS. We have no choice now. We have to end the present constitution and draft a new one for a new age. We need a new republic. Until then only the status quo will be served.
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Bartering is doable and must not be scoffed at.
Insurance companies are evil and are a major reason that health care costs are so high. We must abolish all insurance companies, not just for health care but for everything!
Inane natterings, yes. But I’d still bang her. I can’t usually say this for democrat women.
Picture Dirty Harry looming over a quivering Repuglican Economic Theorists: “Well, do you feel lucky Punk? Are you ready to live in a Barter Economy and the anarchy of too few government regulatory programs? Well are you Punk?”
Then you wake up and come to the horror that that is exactly what that entire party has been about for the last 30 years.
Or maybe Freddy Kruger?
Dental crowns for 3 chickens!!
Saw the above special at a Kentucky dentist office. Since you can get a whole chicken (cooked) at Kroger for three bucks, that is a huge deal for a total of $9.
#- Bobbo — Geez Bobbo, you have something against using one or two word user names? I wonder what the limit is on the user name field.
In order to pay with cash or chickens, a person would need an itemized bill. Your personal doctor can in most cases produce one but try getting an itemized bill from a hospital. There was a thread on Reddit about hospitals not providing an itemized bills. When asked for one, the usual response is don’t worry insurance will take care of it.
What would happen if a person could visit websites of different hospitals to view pricing of services? For a person paying cash, this would help the person to spend their cash wisely.
only a liberal moron would think this NOT a good idea
#17–bac==be a man. Stop projecting YOUR issues onto other people. I have no problem at all with single word nicknames, or use of real names, or 3-5 words, or paragraphs. I posted under bobbo for quite a time until the issue of copying other poster’s names because an issue AND Sister Mary Handgrenade and a few other similar posters here, who do not post often enough, go with the very funny and insightful intro to their posts.===made me think about it all. I could post an intro line but by linking it all to bobbo, those who feel a comfort by pigeon holing people they like or don’t like or who are forming an opinion have an easy handle.
But yea, I also feel more than one line can be abused. I just want to honor every once in a while Greg Allen who made the point to me.
Thats why I come here too much. Every once in a while I get a new idea, can’t get that in church or often enough from reading material by myself.
Medicare regulations “used to” require an itemized bill and I’m sure somewhere in “the system” an itemized bill does exists. The fac that its hard to get is also not surprising given it sometimes takes weeks/months to get all the final charges to the right patient.
This kind of inefficiency is why a single payer can provide coverage to all and save money at the same time.
“Could” not will.
Jim W. said “The point she is making is that we used to pay doctors directly for services rendered.”
Wow, I completely misread that. I thought she was saying doctors like to snog chickens.
#- Bobbo — “somewhere in “the system” an itemized bill does exists. The fact that its hard to get is also not surprising given it sometimes takes weeks/months to get all the final charges to the right patient” — A decade or two back, the information age was suppose to make this easier.
“This kind of inefficiency is why a single payer can provide coverage to all and save money at the same time.” — Only if the single payer does routine audits of hospitals and doctors.
I like this health care plan. I want to walk into a hospital, slap down 4 lb. Grade A frier, and get a perfectly good hip replacement. And I’m talking a good hip replacement, something with a zipper scar racing stripe, because I’m willing to cough up a Grade A bird.
When I was 11 years old (this would be 1962), I had infected tonsils that were removed by surgery. I’m pretty sure my parents didn’t pay for the surgery by bartering with chickens.
Sue Lowden is talking about a financial system that hasn’t existed since the 1930s. Doctors don’t take chickens in payment. Corporations won’t take chickens either, unless you’re talking about Pilgrim’s Pride chickens in plastic wrappers, by the truckload.
I’d be interested in this candidate speaking in plain english and saying what she advocates. That means she would like to eliminate medicare (oh, that would go over big the tea party) and the VA health care system. Soup kitchens were good enough in the good old days (when you didn’t have a chicken) and that be good enough for disabled vets.
Which is worse?
Paying for your medical checkup with a chicken, or handing your personal bank account access info over to the govt so they can withdraw your money immediately during each and every medical visit.
The latter is the Democrats wet dream of utopia.
#11 “Nicely done Marc.”
One thing about him, he is consistent.
We should pay congress with poultry as a pilot test for the program.
#19 “This kind of inefficiency is why a single payer can provide coverage to all and save money at the same time.”
That makes sense, sorta like the efficient IRS.
The only way to fix health care in america is to get government out of it 100%. Allow doctors and hospitals and insurance companies to compete with each other without government intervention. That way, doctors who give the best care for the lowest possible cost will get the most business. Also, hospitals who give the best service & experience at the lowest cost possible would get the most business. Finally, insurance companies who offered the best service and who actually fought to keep prices low and paid out claims the fastest would get the most business. Who needs the hassle of convincing stubborn politicians who are already in corporate pockets and misguided laws which need to be enforced with a gun and jail time and fines?
BmoreBadBoy, would you be in favor of shutting down the VA? If private health care is the best possible care then the veterans deserve that. Right?