The Nevada GOP is trying to defend Sue Lowden’s ChickenCare proposal.

Their argument is that the Dems are focusing on chickens because they can’t deal with her argument on the merits which they, somewhat creatively, interpret as getting rid of the health insurance model in favor direct cash negotiations between patients and doctors. Says the Nevada GOP’s Ciara Turns: “They can make this about chickens and about goats, and using one word instead of another word – maybe she should have said ‘negotiation’ instead of ‘barter.'”