{"id":689,"date":"2010-04-22T15:42:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T20:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2010-04-22T16:20:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T21:20:24","slug":"but-what-can-i-get-for-a-kidney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"But What can I Get for a Kidney?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican cream puff Sue Lowden who’s running against Harry Reid in Nevada has suggested that a simple solution to the health care crisis.\u00a0 No need for socialized “Obamacare.”\u00a0 Let’s go back to the “olden days” when you could bring your doctor a chicken or paint his house.<\/p>\n

She really said this.<\/p>\n

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I’m so thrilled that the Republicans are finally offering real<\/em> ideas instead of simply going negative.\u00a0 What brilliance this woman has!\u00a0 Only someone from the true heartland of America, a place known for openness to new ideas about revenue streams like gambling and prostitution could look backwards to the future and come up with something like this.<\/p>\n

The only problem is that I live in an urban area where most people don’t keep livestock (except for ritualistic purposes).\u00a0 So without a chicken, is my medical goose cooked?\u00a0 She also suggests housepainting, but that could take out my back which would just lead to more need for medical care.<\/p>\n

I suppose if I were going in for surgery, I could simply allow the doctor to take out any extra parts — like say a kidney or slice of liver for exchange.\u00a0 Women under 35 could offer their<\/em> eggs which go for a lot on the open market and could probably cover a healthy family for a year. I suppose if we’re going to look for models in\u00a0 the “olden days” — the days before credit cards, bankruptcy and insurance, we could go back to the ultimate barter item — oneself.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, if faced with a serious illness and no other option, one could opt for indentured servitude and\/or giving away one’s first born.\u00a0 (If you can’t afford to pay the doctor, you probably shouldn’t be raising a child anyway.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican cream puff Sue Lowden who’s running against Harry Reid in Nevada has suggested that a simple solution to the health care crisis.\u00a0 No need for socialized “Obamacare.”\u00a0 Let’s go back to the “olden days” when you could bring your doctor a chicken or paint his house. She really said this. I’m so thrilled that … Continue reading But What can I Get for a Kidney?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,1],"tags":[162,160,163,159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}