Senate candidate Sue Lowden (R-NV) has been getting roasted (or perhaps even rotisseried) for her suggestion that bartering could lower health care costs and her reference to how her grandparents’ generation would pay doctors with a chicken. But, a close look at other media reports shows that Lowden is only one of many people to join the bandwagon over the last several years, with news organizations from the New York Times to the Fox Business Channel getting in on the action. Though of course, the use of barter does involve economic tradeoffs.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=127456