Your Wonkette kind of missed the on-ramp for this one, and then it became old news, but hey! That chicken lady running against Harry Reid! You know! Gal who says “give the doctor a chicken to pay for medical services” and gets into all sorts of hot poop! Well guess what, this idiot now wants to “set the record straight” and has gone to the Internet’s most trusted forum for record-straightening, the POLITICO, where she writes, “The comment I made about bartering was not, and was never intended to be, a policy proposal. It was an example of how struggling families are working to pay for medical care in any way they can during these tough times.” Exactly. Why hasn’t Harry Reid even bothered to address affordable medical care for struggling families during his time in the Senate? Couldn’t fit it on the agenda last year with all that “health care reform” gobbledyg… uh, nevermind. HARRY REID LIES! [POLITICO]
May 27, 2012
Chicken-Barter Senate Candidate Lady Would Like To Address Her Idiocy, For A Moment
by Jim Newell 4:52 pm April 30, 2010
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Yeah, I know all the doctors at my husband’s hospital would be happy to take three chickens and a pig for that heart surgery they just performed. Shit, wouldn’t it be nice if we had some way to put a common value on these items, with a common currency, so that goods and services can be valued and “paid” for in a common manner? Oh, wait…
Keep fucking that chicken.
Right — which is why, instead of backing off the first time she was called on her piece of idiocy, she doubled down instead. Anyway, I went to the hospital a month ago, and if I only had a thousand chickens hanging around, my bills’d be paid off by now. But her policy suggestion will be great for all those struggling families who have no money but just zillions of buff orpington hens they really need to get off their hands.
Instead of $150, the doctor might accept a live chicken as payment. And they said doctors would oppose single payer.
chickens are not legal tender. not even if they’re chicken tenders.
Hey what could you get for a bucket of chicken?
Right, it was an example she gave – while arguing the government shouldn’t do it’s job and help those people (which includes us single folk too, not just families; or does she just figure we don’t matter?) who were struggling to pay for medical care.
Somehow, I imagine that Lowden’s primary campaign received a maximum donation from a Mr. H. Reid.
Tom Horne is a fuckin’ snowback?. Hey, hoser, let real Americans decide what’s real American enough for Arizona.
The POLITICLOACA has won the afternoon!
Maybe some Soy Jism would work as payment.
Policy “proposals”. “Examples” of what might be done to fix the problem at hand.
I think I see the difference.
[re=568212]slappypaddy[/re]: Best laugh of the week, (or am I getting hysterical?)
[re=568194]ManchuCandidate[/re]: But did you see how that chicken was dressed?
Lowden went on to say, “You don’t have to barter with livestock. For example, skee-ball tickets would be a great alternative.”
2,000 more chickens and I can pay for my gall bladder surgery!
[re=568212]slappypaddy[/re]: But wait, legally they ARE tenders, right?
Fuck the chicken,just legalize pot.
Sue Lowden is a much finer example of the struggles Americans are having with health care. Instead of the goose that laid the golden egg Americans got a bitty who can’t recognize Mitt Romney’s outstanding health care reform ideals were realized, an old bitty at that, who has endangered the lives of millions of chickens with her ignorance. PETA got Olivia Munn to take pictures on behalf of the chickens. What would really draw attention to the real life struggle is a down and dirty barnyard mud wrestling match between those two hens, a battle royale between pro-chicken hottie and pro-chickenshit candidate.
[re=568212]slappypaddy[/re]: And what if they’re illegal chicken tenders? Papers, please.
I’ve been paying my doctor with cunnilingus for years now… I do hope she retires soon.
I’m going to try something stupid. I’m going to attempt to walk through the reasoning here. Let’s assume, for example, that you are broke and that you need to go to the doctor. You can’t afford the doctor’s fee, so you find something you own, which has some value (as in, doctors certainly won’t accept worthless pieces of shit) and offer to pay the doctor with said item in exchange for services. This is known as bartering. Right. Well, if the doctor agrees to accept your skee-ball ticket in exchange for setting your broken arm, and the skee-ball ticket is worth, let’s say, nine bucks, you’re basically bringing down the cost of medical care by forcing down the value of the visit.
This is different from government sponsored healthcare reform, in that one human being is appealing to the sympathy and charity of another human being, which may or may not work in practice, because let’s face it, the doctor may not play skee-ball, but prefer bowling, but you didn’t have any bowling tickets, so you’re fucked.
Aw fuck it, just take your poor, penniless ass to the emergency room. “Square one” is fine.
[re=568236]gurukalehuru[/re]: Seconded.
Lest see. Swap Meet Sue is a fundie Xian, a runner-up in a beauty contest, & former TV reporter. Works for me!
Her comments should be bronzed for posterity so they can fully appreciate the republican tendency to romanticize the past, in these case the past where your doctor had zero capital costs in the form of high tech machinery to actually do more than give you aspirin or instruct your family in nursing you through TB. Cancer? Write a will. Heart Attack? Write a will. Yeah, we want that beautiful and simplistic past recreated as our current medical system as indicated by a desire to pay in chickens.
Her comments also clearly demonstrate the typical republican disconnect on economics that future historians will have difficulty believing. Despite blathering on about how “business friendly” they are in all forms of policy. How the fuck can you be business friendly if you don’t understand what a fiat currency is? Jesus help us all.
I have a rotator cuff injury which is sometimes excruciatingly painful. Anyone know a doctor who will give me oxycods in return for my little sister? I’ll throw in my worthless younger brother as well.
I wanted to offer my eye doctor a year’s worth of chicken fajitas, but I think she’s from Arizona.
[re=568288]x111e7thst[/re]: One man’s chicken is another man’s chickenhawk.
“It was an example of how struggling families are working to pay for medical care…” I dare that woman to give ONE EXAMPLE of where a doctor actually bartered with a patient for medical care (& sex acts don’t count).
Hey, I submitted a tip on that, about a week ago! And no credit?
Gesh.
[re=568254]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: “Bitty”? Or “Biddy”? Either one works, but the latter, chicken-related one makes more sense.
Signed,
Neilist
Word Police, Special Weapons & Tactics Division
“Eats, Shoots (Multiple times, with crew serviced weapons, pausing only occasionally to reload), and Leaves.”
Jim, might I suggest any of these pictures of the potential Senator from the good state of Nevada: http://www.google.com/images?rlz=1C1LAVC_enUS364US365&q=kids+in+the+hall+chicken+lady&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=AnLbS-2QHZDMsgPYiszNBg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=6&ved=0CCwQsAQwBQ
[re=568256]chascates[/re]: Chicken, ass or grass: No one gets treated for free.
The sad thing is those chickens are smarter than she is and she’s still winning. Can that state get a burning oil spill next?
[re=568351]Neilist[/re]: “…shoots multiple times with crew serviced weapons…”
Eric Massa? That you? Is this another euphemism for navy hanky panky?
[re=568387]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: “In the Navvvvvvvyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy . . . . .”
Sorry. That wasn’t me.
A United States Senator just came in the room.
Never mind.
The chicken was asking for it. At least *that* chicken was.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/29/AR2010042903667.html
Eugene Robinson’s column on this is good, as usual.
Keep fuckin’ that false-sentimentality chicken, Republicans.
I’ll work for bacon.
I heard Politico will accept 5 nose boogers for each link-clicky.
For my heart transplant, I offered my surgeon the opportunity to eat the old one. He is thinking about it, but might ask for a kidney, too.
Chicken for surgery???
No.
Now, pussy?
Better deal.
You know what the Bush/Cheney/Limpballs/FOX crowd would offer. hee, hee…….
That’s the problem with fundie conservatives. They can’t do math. Which would make more economic sense, spending all your chickens on a single surgery or a few of your chickens on the monthly health insurance bill? Heck, switch to rabbits and the health insurance bill could be funded by just the natural rabbit reproductive rate. See that America? I have now solved the health care crisis in our country! All it takes is a little bipartisanship. I took the idea of bartering livestock from the Republicans and the idea of universal health insurance from the Democrats and combined them. This is how good governance comes about! Bipartisan solutions to real problems! See that Obama? Bipartisan solutions aren’t the stupid, contradictory, self defeating idiocy everyone thinks they are! Rabbits can solve our health care crisis! Bipartisanship for everyone!
[re=568288]x111e7thst[/re]: Some of these Reps probably accept slaves.
Is what’s her face actually paid in chickens herself? Would she agree to take chickens for a year, instead of Obamadollars?
What do you do if your doc doesn’t want a chicken, but insists on a guinea hen or a pheasant?
A tad OT, but that reminded me of the unfortunately titled memoir of Vietnam helicopter pilot Robert Mason.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143035711
One of my favorite books ever. No, it’s not a glorification of killing. Made me sort of glad my eyes weren’t good enough for flying and I ended up in Elint instead.
I find it quite unbelievable that there are a lot of people in Nevada seriously considering giving their vote to this stupid asshole of a woman.
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