A Full Chicken Costs $7 At The Grocery Store. What Medical Visit/Procedure Costs $7?

Typical R stupidthink - at the base of Chicken Sue's clever solution to health care is the fact that you'd need to bring 5 chickens to your doctor just to handle your co-pay IF you had insurance. If you don't have insurance, you may have to bring him 15 chickens to cover the cost of a visit, and that's without having any special treatment or getting a prescription or two. So, if a doctor sees 20 patients a day, he's looking at 300 chickens a day.

And how many times is he going to have his house painted?

What an idiot.

She meant LIVE chickens, which totally makes more sense.

:crazy:

Walk in clinics usually charge $80 or so. So that is 11 chickens. Or why not just cut to the chase and trade sex for medical care. How many handjobs for a visit to a GP.

Gay and bald? Evo Morales thinks you ate too much chicken
Bolivian president causes homophobia storm by blaming 'deviant' men on hormone-reared fowl

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Speaking at an environmental conference on Tuesday, Morales said chicken producers injected fowl with female hormones and insisted that "when men eat those chickens they experience deviances in being men".

The Bolivian president since 2005 added that eating chicken could make men go bald.

Morales's theories do not appear to have been immediately accepted by the scientific community, to put it mildly, and have been criticised by Spain's National Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals, which sent a letter of protest to the Bolivian embassy in Madrid describing the president's remarks as homophobic.

The president of the Argentina Homosexual Community campaigning organisation, Cesar Cigliutti, said: "It's an absurdity to think that eating hormone-containing chicken can change the sexual orientation of a person.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/apr/22/chicken-causes-homosexuality-evo-morales

That was a $7 charge on a recent bill. Of course the LAB WORK on the fucker was $130 for a single test!

Is it in eggs? And if it is, are they fresh, or hard-boiled?


Important details like this that get glossed over all the time...

You've got to think outside the coop.

Chicken Sue wishes the US was in - roughly the late 1940s.

And I couldn't keep the doors open if I did it too much. The IRS paperwork is pretty substantial compared to normal transactions (you have to establish and document current local fair market value and then credit the patient for that amount in lieu of cash payment). So we have taken organic chickens and a lamb and veggies on occasion but there is a limit. I would love to find a plumber who is willing to trade as well as an electrician and cement contractor. That would be worth my time, but for most patients we just can't afford the extra time such transactions take.

Having said that we keep our eyes open for trades / barters that will be mutually beneficial, but it isn't something we advertise.

Chicken Sue doesn't get that most folks in the depression did trades because it was the only medium of exchange that worked for country folk of limited means. The doc got a meal and the farmer got a diagnosis and some meds. But they were also doing it because they didn't want to pay taxes. And they didn't.

Bartering is not a rational system for large scale economies.