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Health Freedom Act Clears House Committee; Sponsor Says We Can Pay Doctors with Vegetables
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Apr 22, 2010 09:51am |
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| Category | Editorial |
| Author | Jeff Woods |
| Media | Newspaper - Nashville Scene |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 13, 2010 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republicans running the House Commerce Committee spun their wheels again this morning, wasting time for the second straight week on legislation purporting to nullify national health care reform.
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The bill supposedly gives all Tennesseans the right to disobey the national law’s mandate to buy health insurance. “That’s what this bill is about—it’s about freedom. It’s about giving people choice,” said the sponsor, Rep. Mike Bell, R-Riceville.
With a straight face, Bell went on to tell Rep. Joe Towns, D-Memphis, that people who choose not to buy insurance can pay their medical bills with vegetables like the Mennonites do in his district.
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. |
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