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Rachel Maddow captures some GOP member suggesting how patients can pay for their healthcare, “get a boatload of Lipitor for a chicken”, I don’t think so but these folks are giving alternatives for those who can’t pay cash for care today and granted there are some isolated cases but this is still more like charity in reality with or without the chicken. How many doctors are paid with “chickens” today? “Bring a chicken to the doctor” she says.
The second clip shows a discussion in the Tennessee legislature that is suggesting that if patients can’t pay cash, they can bring vegetables. Would a sack of vegetables pay for a live transplant? She adds would Kaiser Permanente accept some gingersnaps in exchange for an EKG. This is funny and how some folks think we are still in the “horse trading” era.
Add on a few other states and we are seeing some very strange laws and regulations being passed lately, like Arizona for one. What is happening at the state levels? It’s getting very strange out there and do some of these folks even have a clue? BD
(I tried to embed the video but no luck, use the link in the title to view-this is hilarious).
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I have one patient that brings me Free Range Chicken Eggs for his physical.
Very Tasty !
My EMR is: Synapse It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. Pioneers are the ones with the arrows in their backs.
DrMurdoch: I have one patient that brings me Free Range Chicken Eggs for his physical. Very Tasty !
I'm partial to "Homemade Tortillas," but only if they are legal.
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Barbara:
Two years ago, my husband (office manager) signed up my dermatology practice with a local barter group. We have been "paid" in the following goods and services:
- Landscaping - both the office and home
- Granite counter tops
- Carpet and VCT flooring
- Printing - business cards, stationary, and website design work (which was pretty bad)
- magazine advertising
- Pet sitting and grooming services
-photography services (family portraits)
- Catering
- Massages for the office staff
- Automobile repairs
- Computer services
- a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico
- Tutoring for a nurse's son
- beach house timeshare rental (the place was a dump)
The best-received barter was from a local artist who painted and amazing mural in our PA's baby's room at her house.
It is not that crazy of an idea, really. It adds an element of fun to the office, and it allows us to trade our skills and unused capacity for the talents and unused inventory of others. So we barter skin exams; Botox; laser hair removal; facial fillers; IPL treatments and other cosmetic products and services for all sorts of crazy things - even though it's probably only once-a-month.
Leave it to the politicians to come up with dull examples like chickens and vegetables.
Oh I can agree on bartering have done it myself, but I think we had a case here of trying to use this as a bigger solution than it really is, we all can have access to money and need that to pay our bills, etc..
Like the one man said I can't take a bunch of vegetables down to power company to pay my electric bill, in other words like many other solutions every little bit helps but I think physicians need some money too in addition to the chickens and vegetables out there too and you can't dole out charity above and beyond your own financial needs:) The video was a hoot and the fact that this was brought up way out of context is what made it so funny:)