This is just a case of telling the voters what they want to believe about the 'good old days', Sarah Palin does it, this candidate is just doing the same.
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"On Monday Lowden appeared on a local TV programme, where she was asked about a mildly eccentric suggestion she had made that patients should haggle and barter with their doctors to save money on their medical bills. As you can see from the video clip above, she replied:
"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.... In the old days that's what people would do to get health care with their doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I'm not backing down from that system.""
Prior to the start of social programs with FDR, these pea pickers did not have much to "barter".