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.
The family did not always live in Wasilla.
To 122 - Your post is impertinent and manifests glaringly a lack of comprehension.
Sorry, today you can cross the border and pay. No problem. If however, you are a Canadian and try to pay , both you and the doctor could end up in jail.
This is the system Obama wants to insert up your asses.
Heh!
Ah, ever more facts added to the discussion by JLA! I apparently am impertinient and lack comprehension. READ MY FACTS ont my POSTS!
Excuse me...you use to be on the "Palin Fringe" just six weeks ago. Heck, you were front pew sitter.
Out-of-Context Hit Piece PING!!!!!!!
I call CFOOWC.
Complete Fabrication Out Of Whole Cloth.
I prefer she kept her mouth shut. However, this appears to be a big non-event so it really doesn’t matter.
The context doesn't make clear what Palin is saying is "ironic," though it may be the fact that she now considers the Canadian system dangerously flawed.
Palin, as a young child, lived in a remote community as near to Whitehorse as to any Alaska metropolis.
CORRECTION: Whitehorse is in Yukon, not Saskatchewan, and Palin, as a young child, lived closer to it than earlier reported.
UPDATE: Here's some more context: "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."
Actually the ‘newspaper of record’, got it wrong. That however is not anything new, or unusual for them.
Indeed. I've used the Canadian health care system as well. 1964, driving up the Alkan while my dad was enroute to his new assignment in Anchorage at Elmendorf AFB. Nice people, very professional. He paid for it as well. Cash. Nothing unusual about this story at all.
And it don't matter to the Palin haters, here or over on the DU. There's not a hairs breath difference between them.
Evidence????
And who is this “source”?
I looked it up and this is what I found ...
By JASON MARKUSOFF
SUN, MAR 7 2010
It was little surprise that Sarah Palin's first visit to our home and native land (of public health care and gay marriage) would be in Calgary. It also shouldn't be surprising that she was able to curry favour with the local crowd by speaking at length and with much authority about the Alaska government's process of securing TransCanada for the Alaska Pipeline Project.
What was fascinating about the ever-fascinating Sarah Palin's speech was another of her Canadian connections. One that didn't involve hockey.
“My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse (180km away. see map). 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."
Given all the politician-turned pundit's warnings about the ills of expanding government role in U.S. health care (see: panels, death), this was, yep, pretty ironic-sounding. Now in fairness, she was born in Idaho and them moved to Alaska as an infant in 1964, two years before the Medical Care Act that established national medicare came to Canada. Several years after universal coverage came to acute hospital care like burns, mind you. But then, it's not exactly anybody's political choice where they receive medical attention when they're less than five years old, to say nothing of the political ideologies one doesn't really develop around that age.
There's more at the link...
Your nose is working well!
From Wasilla to Canada would be quite a trip, like halfway across the lower 48. Sneek? Yea, rrrrright.
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