Sue Louden - Utah's Replacement for Harry Reid?

Lowden is a former state senator and chair of the Nevada Republican Party. She’s also, according to nearly every recent poll, the favorite to defeat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) in November. Lowden is not, as one might imagine, a supporter of recent improvements to the broken health care system, and she was asked at a candidate forum the kind of policies she’d prefer to see. Among her proposals:

“…I would have suggested, and I think that bartering is really good. Those doctors who you pay cash, you can barter, and that would get prices down in a hurry. And I would say go out, go ahead out and pay cash for whatever your medical needs are, and go ahead and barter with your doctor.”

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I would think that negotiating with Doctors, Pharma, and Hospitals is the main thing that we pay our outrageous premiums for in the first place. Sue Louden thinks we should all bring our doctor a chicken - or maybe a hundred dozen eggs? And this is supposed to make our medical prices go down somehow?

Lets hear this again:>

"...go ahead and pay cash for whatever your medical needs are, and go ahead and barter with your doctor"

That sure sounds like a plan.