Montana U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy (R) “said earlier this year that he wants to privatize the U.S. healthcare system,” Semafor reports.

“The comments, made at an August meet-and-greet in Glasgow, Mont., were captured on an audio recording obtained by Semafor. Speaking to a group of attendees, Sheehy argued that the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies for insurance coverage and other federal health programs had inflated the cost of medical treatment.”

Said Sheehy: “Our hospitals have been built around federal healthcare subsidies. In my opinion we need to return healthcare to pure privatization.”

“I mean, healthcare worked before health insurance existed. Each town had a doctor that would drive to your house, take care of you and you’d pay him,” Sheehy said. “And guess what? It worked. It worked when you actually paid a doctor for services provided.”

This is Looney tunes