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"FacebookPinterest\n\n But if they did, I\u2019m sure they\u2019d appreciate the starring role Nevada Republican Sue Lowden has given them in the current debate over health care. Earlier this week, Lowden (running for the GOP nomination for Senate) explained to an interviewer that having or not having health insurance shouldn\u2019t be a problem for motivated customers:\n\n&amp;quot;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\u2019ll paint your house. I mean, that\u2019s the old days of what people would do to get health care with your doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I\u2019m not backing down from that system.&amp;quot;\n\n This is a claim worth examining, especially since Lowden is likely to be the nominee squaring off against beleaguered Harry Reid in November. In &amp;quot;the olden days of our grandparents&amp;quot; is an imprecise historical period, to say the least, but Lowden is 58\u2014let\u2019s say her parents were 25 when she was born. And if her grandparents had kids at the same age, that\u2019d make them 25 in 1927. Their life expectancy at that point? Just 59 years. A return to that system would demand that Lowden start collecting her chickens now\u2014perhaps in bulk, since who knows what an MRI or chemotherapy or a pacemaker (medical treatments that didn\u2019t exist in &amp;quot;the olden days&amp;quot;) would cost &amp;quot;in chickens.&amp;quot;\n\nNevada Democrats have already spliced together an alarming version of the &amp;quot;chicken dance&amp;quot; to illustrate the ludicrousness of Lowden\u2019s argument, but I think they should go a step further and try to actually purchase health care with live stock, as a public service. Since at the moment, Nevada ranks 9th in the nation of states with the greatest number of uninsured individuals. There is one flaw in Lowden\u2019s scheme:  Nevada produces hardly any of the nation\u2019s chickens. And ranks toward the bottom of livestock production in general. Nevadans seeking to barter something the state has in abundance would need to look toward more esoteric items, like gold, copper, civilian aircraft and integrated circuits. Or they could trade services. Like, you know, lap dances.\n\nAll of which begs the question: Has Sue Lowden ever even seen a chicken?\n\nEMBED-Arrested Development Chicken Dances - Watch more free videos"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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