Harry Reid's Losing To HER???

Oh Annie *shakes head* you know full well there's no chicken in a McNugget... On a serious note though she does have a valid point. I'm not saying you should bring a chicken into the waiting room, but the point was that doctors WANT to treat people and many are willing to negotiate. I don't know if you've looked at the bills paid by your insurance in the past, but they really negotiate things down heavily with doctors. I have to believe that if a doctor will negotiate with a faceless corporation, they'll negotiate with an honest person struggling to pay the bill.

A while back a friend of mine went to a dentist in a near by town, small town, lol...like every other town around here. Anyways, while he was there, he watched/listened while the dentist negotiated with a patient (who was a plumber) a deal in which he would trade dental work for some plumbing work the dentist needed done on an addition he was putting on his house. A number of years ago...a doctor my mother worked with would make house calls...for no more of a fee than a dinner that was prepaired for him to take home for he and his wife. As the economy goes south (and dont be fooled in to thinking it wont) this is the type of thing you are going to see. You can make fun of it all you want but it is a system that stands when all others have fallen and is still practiced in many rural areas such as mine. Things like this are common here in all walks of business. I realize people like to make fun of this sort of mentality...it smacks of snobbery. there is a great tendency towards city folk to view the rest of the country as if it must adherre to their own narrow standards and that anything outside of that scope is "unusual" or "backwards"...if it doesn't exist on their door step...it is wierd...up here, this is what we call the flat lander mentality. As to "Harry Reid losing to HER???"...Nevada could run Ru-Paul against Reid and Reid would lose....it wouldn't take much.

This may not seem so far fetched. Many communities are using some form of barter system. Even in my case I will take pictures of your kids in sports and you fix my leaky faucet. There are doctors who will barter for your business. From what I read I would take it that she was saying that you deal with the DR and agree on a payment, in the old days it was done with goods and services, now it is done with cash. Pay up front and save 25%, pay within 30 days and save 15%. Make monthly payments and you file all the insurance papers and save 5%. PS Annie, I wish you well on your surgery and I will pray for your quick recovery.

Another example of people running for office who have no clue on how to help solve the problem.. They just throw sh** out there and their followers gobble it up. I wonder if people will ever wake up and realize that the democrats are trying to pull the nation out of the muck and mess that the Bush administration made? I realize that most of them are branded with the big "R" on their butts and can't change.

It would be lovely if we could go back to that system, wouldn't it? I'm just curious, though. What is her opinion of the doctor in Florida who put up a sign telling his patients that if they supported Obama, they were to find a new doctor? Does she consider that sympathetic?

I pray all goes well with your back surgery. Your post makes me think of my great grandmother who, according to my mother, would go to the doctor, tell the doctor what was wrong with her, tell the doctor what treatment she needed, pay the doctor $5.00 and go home.

Actually she has a very good point. Senator Dr Ron Paul still gets paid in baked goods and food stuffs.

My father used to tell me, as I'm sure many fathers told their children, "In my day, boy, I'd walk to school with holes in my shoes, no jacket, in two feet of snow, up the damn hill!" Of course, he wasn't telling me to do the same. He was just trying to tell me how tough he was and that my problems are nothing to be whining to him about when he had the same problems and handled it. Harry Reid would be losing to a candidate who couldn't talk at all. Somebody walking on the stage and giving a thumbs-up would pull in more support than Reid. But picking is picking and doesn't need reason beyond reaction. If you were a right-wing male, you'd be considered the most sexist person using myLot.

We don't need to go back to barter to fix healthcare. We need to strip the medical cartels of their power by bring back a free market. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2781978/healing_healthcare_restore_medical.html?cat=5

So, Annie, you miss the point. Harry Reid should lose to a tree (!) because, as a human being, he is a loser. Everything he does, including ramming down unconstitutional bills, is motivated by power-mongering and greed. He is a nasty little man. How he ever got into office is beyond me. Sue Lowden is right, as I was around in the old days and there never was a problem with getting good health care at reasonable prices. My doctor even came to our home to treat us. It's the government interference in the first place that causes all the problems with fee-setting, bureaucratic nonsense, not letting doctors have their own labs as a patient convenience, etc. Oh, Harry Reid doesn't care about anyone's healthCARE, just about political manuevering and corruption. Too bad.

Good luck with your surgery and I hope all turns out well. Harry Reid would not only lose to her, he would lose to my dog, if he were running for office (and lived in Nevada). The people of Nevada are up to their eyeballs with Reid and just about anyone right now could beat Reid. A great time to be anyone in Nevada running against Reid...