Thursday, April 22, 2010

Yesterday we learnd about Nevada's Chicken Lady

And today brings us news of a Tennessee state rep. (GOP of course) who suggests that we learn to pay for our medical care with vegetables.
Bell's made his comments last week, during discussion of a proposed state law that would attempt to nullify the federal health care insurance mandate in the state of Tennessee. Here is a transcript of a dialogue in committee between Bell and Democratic state Rep. Joe Towns, courtesy of the Nashville Scene, as Bell explained that many people get along without insurance:

Bell: They're some of the healthiest people you have ever seen. They pay cash when they go to the doctor. They work out arrangements with the hospitals if their children have to be hospitalized. This is an individual choice that we're talking about.

Towns: You're saying they pay cash? For organ transplants and cancer and heart cases, they pay cash?

Bell: I said they pay cash or work out other arrangements. I know for a fact. I know someone in the medical field who has been paid with vegetables from the Mennonite community.

Towns: That's an anomaly. That's not how the system works. I can't take a sack of vegetables down to the utility company and pay my utility bill on my house. Nobody's going to take vegetables for payment. We can't run the country on vegetables and horse trading.
The big question is how many head of lettuce does it take for a triple bypass operation?

// posted by montag @ 4:57 PM
Comments:
I guess you don't understand Mont.
It depends how big those heads are ya see there.
# posted by Blogger One Fly : 6:40 PM
 

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