If insurance also accepted the barter principal for health , I wonder what my co-pay would look like

[Godhumor]

Would love to have an insurance card with a co-pay line of:

Co-pay: General Practitioner - 2 Jars of Homemade Jam, Specialist - 1 Bale of Hay, ER Visit - 2 Goats wearing Rubber Waders


I also have to admit those would be fun insurance statements to read each month.

[rcrush]

1. For major procedures the insurance company will turn you into a indentured servant

You will have to live in the CEO's penthouse become his butler. Or sex slave.

[baldguy]

2. Wouldn't it cost you an arm & a leg?

[Turbineguy]

3. If you turned up with a chicken

you'd find out the rules changed and they'd send you back for a capon. "But, I'm having a heart attack!" "Sorry, rules is rules!"

[guitar man]

4. I actually did trade out services with my chiropractor

Several years ago I installed aftermarket exhaust on my chiropractor's Harley and jetted the carb for the new pipes in exchange for a couple adjustments.

But anybody with any sense knows that those kind of deals are few and far between.

[mikeSchmuckabee]

5. I wouldn't give my left nut for a vasectomy.

But I might give my eye teeth for a root canal.

[rurallib]

6. You know I realized that I would probably have to steal most of the bartering goods

that have been discussed here today.
If I get caught, I end up in jail.
If I end up in jail, do I get health care as part of the deal?