Posted on 03/08/2010 9:42:11 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Edited on 03/08/2010 1:01:32 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Original title: Palin: I snuck across Canadanian border for healthcare By Eric Zimmermann - 03/08/10 11:33 AM ET
Sarah Palin's family used to "hustle" across the Canadian border to get healthcare, the former Alaska Governor said this weekend.
In a speech in Calgary, Palin called it "ironic" that while growing up in a small Alaskan town near the Canadian border, her family used to sneak across to take advantage of the Canadian healthcare system.
"We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada," she said, according to Medicine Hat News (via Dave Weigel.) "And I think now, isn't that ironic."
It's ironic, of course, because Palin and other Republicans have argued that Democratic healthcare reform will put the U.S. on the path towards Canada's "socialized" healthcare system.
What??? Something doesn’t sound right here... I don’t believe Sarah said this.
Cmon, SD. That was from a SNL Tina Fey sketch.
If true and accurate its not a parallel. She was in a remote town in Alaska which hardly has comparable medical resources as most major American cities in the lower 48.
Argh, on this I have some trouble believing it. I think I will wait on this. LOL
I am sure this sounds like something Biden would say.
Why in the world was it necessary to share this tidbit?
Maybe you are thinking Robert Zimmereman? aka Bob Dylan? Just guessing here.
A. Did she really say this?
B. Is it possible that her small Alaskan town didn’t have a doctor?
No results for Weigel or a said story about Palin on the source website.
Sounds bogus.
I read it the same way: When she was growing up, Canada didn't have the socialist healthcare system it has today. Now they do.
But, her words will be twisted. I'm not a big fan of Palin, but she isn't treated fairly.
It was a joke, and the Left fell for it. She does this all the time just to keep them “wee-wee’d up”.
- JP
I’m not a Palin fan, but I don’t buy this.
Smells like moose shit to me.
Sarah Palin’s family didn’t have to pay a dime in taxes for the Canadian healthcare system. Mexicans come to the United States for free medical care too.
This was probably before Canada’s world-class medical system was put into practice, if she was a child at the time.
Yeah, she is approaching the Pope and the Vatican for being mis-represented. I would like to see the context of this.
UPDATE: The Calgary Herald has a fuller, slightly different version of the quote:
"My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse. Believe it or not – this was in the ‘60s – we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse and I think, isn’t that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada."
End of quote.
At the link from the link, it explains that she was living as a child in Skagway and that it was about 6 hours from there to Whitehorse in Yukon. One mention was for her brother who had burned himself. IT is a similar distance to Juneau from Skagway, but perhaps the terrain makes it more interesting to travel that way...
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