Ethics

Dumbass Quote of the Day

By Ed Brayton

From Sue Lowden, the leading Republican challenger to Sen. Harry Reid in this fall's election, suggesting that barter is a better health care plan than insurance:

"I'm telling you that this works," the Republican candidate explained. "You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days, our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor. They would say, 'I'll paint your house.' I mean, that's the old days of what people would do to get health care with your doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I'm not backing down from that system."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 25, 2010 (boomark / email).