Pic Of The Moment: After All This Time, GOP Senate Candidates Are Still Finding New Ways To Lose On Health Care

[EarlG]

'It worked!' GOP Senate candidate floats return to barter system to pay for health care

[sinkingfeeling]

1. But how many eggs is that?

[murielm99]

24. How many kittens?

I think I would prefer to pay in kittens.

[leftieNanner]

2. I'm going to start a new business!

MRIs R Us!

This is beyond stupid.

[SYGDeb]

15. LeftieNanner

Well... it's coming from the "other" team! Count on it.

[PatSeg]

3. Wow, he truly lives in an alternate reality

There's nothing like playing the "good old days" card.

[LakeArenal]

4. He needs to go with that himself and let us know how that works out.

[mountain grammy]

5. I think someone

Should check his lead levels. Please Montana, re elect Jon Tester!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

6. Freaking moron!

You can't make this crap up.

[Initech]

7. Considering their doctor of choice during COVID was a conspiracy theory lunatic...

Who said that the virus was caused by lizard people, and said doctor still hawks quack cures and has not had her medical license revoked yet, I'm not going to trust the GOP's judgement on healthcare any time soon.

[EarnestPutz]

9. As they are always saying, "You can't make this stuff up". Unbelievable.

[Initech]

12. Oh yeah look up some of the crazy shit Stella Immanuel has said.

I really wonder how someone can look at that lunatic and trust her over actual experts? Truly insane. The things she says would get a normal person committed. And I really wonder why she hasn't lost her medical license yet. Madness.

[EarnestPutz]

8. Another great time to suggest that these idiot congressmen should provide the same free health....

….coverage to us that give themselves. We’d be good with that.

[KS Toronado]

10. Hope he hammers that idea home on the campaign trail

and other Rs see merit in paying doctors off by bartering that they follow suit.

[liberal N proud]

11. Will doctors accept chickens for payment again?

[SYGDeb]

17. liberal n proud

Oh.....I definitely believe so. 😂🐔

[patphil]

13. If it was good enough for great grandpa, it's good enough for me - Tim Sheehy.

All you really need is a simple country doctor, with a black bag and a stethoscope!
What drugs is this guy taking?
Medical treatment has progressed a wee bit past the 1920's, and all of our great, sophisticated healthcare costs big bucks....very big bucks.
The biggest reason why the Affordable Health Care Act was instituted was because private insurance was too expensive, and quick to drop patients that had expensive health issues.
A lot of people had to choose between paying the rent and putting food on the table versus paying for necessary, expensive medical treatment. Medically induced bankruptcy was common.
Tim Sheehy wants to bring back the bad old days.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. I am so sick and tired of these Republicans and their ignorant easy fixes.

Facts don't matter to them. No doctor will want to rely on house visits. The new model for doctors was set in the nineties. 15 minute visits in the office. That's the only way to make a buck for them. Or so they say.

[FakeNoose]

16. Repukes only care about grift - it's all about the grift

If healthcare is completely privatized, that means way more insurance industry donations to the GOP for every election.

[Delmette2.0]

18. Bang head here.

Donate to Jon Tester. Please.

[JohnnyRingo]

19. hahahahaha

Ahh for the days when the doctor took 2 chickens and a goat for treating grandma's cancer.

[pansypoo53219]

20. how many chickens?

[Permanut]

25. I think it would be about 25 million for a bypass..

If you get them at Costco.

[Mickju]

21. Their stupidity knows no bounds.

[58Sunliner]

22. I guess he wants the death rate of the same period. POS.

[nuxvomica]

23. It's as though thinking through these issues is too tiresome for them

I wonder how many complex problems this guy has had to deal with in his life and has always managed to get past them with a simple solution that has left other people frustrated or injured in its wake.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

26. Let him be first by not accepting the health care benefits taxpayers pay for.

[Skittles]

27. *SNORT*

[IronLionZion]

28. Plenty of people died back then too

so that solves several problems for pro-life Republicans

There simply hasn't been any advances in health care in 100 years that can't be covered with a few chickens and some fresh milk.

There are single payer systems that have house calls for minor stuff. The US has high deductible plans where your insurance doesn't cover minor stuff so you just pay cash for it. Urgent care centers and walk in clinics exist everywhere now for minor stuff, with or without insurance.

Insurance is for when you need expensive unexpected treatment, you don't have to die if you can't pay for it. There was plenty of this kind of lunacy back when GOP was discouraging young people from signing up for insurance. As if young people don't need treatment for accidents, injuries, substance abuse, mental health treatment, pregnancy, STDs, etc. People don't know when they're going to need care. Life happens when you're not prepared.

[ancianita]

29. He's ex-Navy Seal, and he plays Montana people like that? Tester will eat his lunch.

Whoever writes Sheehy's stuff just F'd up.

[ShazzieB]

30. This guy seems exceptionally clueless and dimwitted, even for a Republican.

Which is saying a lot. But if I'm understanding correctly, this rube is just running for the GOP nomination, and with any luck he'll get kicked to the curb in the primary by someone with a couple more i.q. points and won't ever really be voting on stuff like health care in the actual U.S. Senate.

I am reminded of Todd Akin, a Republican who served as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 2nd congressional district from 2001 to 2013. After all those years in the House, he decided to run for Senate, but his political career came to a screeching halt after he infamously said that women who are victims of what he called "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant, because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Rememer that? I'll never forget it myself. It was so outrageously stupid that it has permanently lodged in my mind. It evidently lodged in some voters' minds, too, because he lost that election quite handily.

This quote from Sheehy is at about the same level of outrageously stupid as what Akin said, so I think there's a reasonable chance of it getting an equally negative reaction. Let's hope so anyway.

[DET]

31. What Is It With Montana?

Sheehy, Gianforte, Zinke, … Why do you keep electing aholes?

[Martin68]

32. So this moron is basically saying we don't need hospitals. He wants to close all the hospitals and return

to the country doctor GP who made house visits model. Hurry up Ma, boil some water and get some clean towels!