NPR: Bartering to cover health care costs

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Sep 27 2011

NPR: Bartering For Health Care: Yardwork For Treatment
Deb Barth is raking leaves for Lesley Jones. But Barth isn't earning money for her yardwork, at least not in physical currency. She's earning "time dollars" -; for every two hours she spends doing odd jobs, she'll earn a free visit with her doctor (Molinsky, 9/26).

Related, earlier KHN story: Bartering For Health Care Rises (Langton, 6/17/2009).

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.orgThis article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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