Sue Lowden’s health care barter plan: “Bring a chicken to the doctor…I’m not backing down”

Posted Apr 20, 2010, 1:36 PM PT by Jed Lewison • First broadcast: Apr 20, 2010

Sue Lowden, the likely Republican nominee against Harry Reid, appearing Monday, April 19 on Nevada Newsmakers, doubling down on her widely ridiculed proposal that people should haggle and barter with doctors to bring down prices:

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"I’m telling you that this works. 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. I mean, that’s the old days of what people would do to get health care with your doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I’m not backing down from that system."