Lowden: “Barter with Your Doctor”

Sue Lowden, former chair of the Nevada GOP, has some suggestions for health care policy rather than the Democrats’ plan.

1. Save as much as you can in tax-free health savings accounts;

2. Barter with your doctor.

She said

I would have also allowed for us to have savings plans increase instead of being decreased like in this bill,” said Lowden. “I would have said to all of you, if you have a health savings account, I don’t really care how much you save, good for you. pre-tax, go ahead and save as much as you want. It’s your — it’s for your health. And if you want to save $20,000, good for you. Save it pre-tax.

And I would have suggested, and I think that bartering is really good. Those doctors who you pay cash, you can barter, and that would get prices down in a hurry. And I would say go out, go ahead out and pay cash for whatever your medical needs are, and go ahead and barter with your doctor.

This is the lady leading in the polls to be the GOP nominee to run against Nevada’s Senator Harry Reid.

How many people are in a position to save up $20,000 for a health savings account? Not many of anyone I know.

And barter with your doctor rather than pay in cash? Wonder if she barters with her doctor? I doubt it.

A fellow named Russell decided to try the barter idea:

I just called my doctor and he wont take a 1973 Dodge Dart with a new motor for my upcoming yearly physical, which runs about $600 and that includes prostate exam. I offered to throw in 3 dead squirrels and a live chicken and still no deal! Heck I even went so far as to offer to mow his lawn for a month and he still shot me down! So much for that airhead’s idea to barter for health care….How stupid are republicans thinking you can barter with health care providers? Can you imagine what their ads will look like in the fall…”please vote for me and I’ll do my best to repeal health care so you wont have access to decent affordable healthcare”….yea…that sounds like a winning message.

Lowden made national TV on the Jay Leno Show bringing the spotlight on the state of Nevada.
[Source: TPM]

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