No one involved in spreading this non-story around has even stopped to consider Alaska's extremely rugged geography.
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.
Perhaps now the left should start asking five year olds if they favor socialized medicine. For Goodness sake she was FIVE YEARS OLD. She was in Canada giving a speech so she wanted people to know that she does indeed have a connection to Canada. I read her great grandfather was Canadian, so of course when she was a young child(A toddler for God’s sake) her parents probably felt very secure going to Canada for treatment for her brother. So, she was FIVE YEARS OLD and had no clue what socialized medicine even was, and besides, Canada didn’t enact socialized medicine til 1972 so til that time, Canadian health care was probably pretty darn good
Like I said in my post, it was her own statement about her five year old experience. The Medecine Hat newspaper recorded that statement, and not the implication of the leftist nutjob.
I don't believe that Sarah said this. I read her book, and she's never lived close enough to the Canadian border to have "snuck over".
Well, the first thing to do in cases like this is to see exactly what a person said, and get the rest of the facts lined up first... That's what I did and I cam up with Post #199 ...
You'll see that they did live close enough to Canada. And you'll see that it was before the time of their current health care system that they have in Canada now. And it was basically going to the nearest and easiest to reach medical facility to take care of what needed to be taken care of.
That doesn't seem like a bad thing to me. I mean, why do you want to go on a more difficult journey instead of an easier journey to a medical facility, no matter what country it's in?
At any rate, don't engage in knee-jerk responses, but check out all the details first. :-)
Palin has always struck me as an instinctive politician, not someone given to shooting herself in the foot. If she really said this, there's a smoking hole in her sneaker right now and she needs to clarify quickly.
I think she clarified it... see Post #199 ...
I got the feeling, as did some other people here, that you got a little tingle, we were wrong?
You also posted a thread on this that gave me the same feeling, that you saw this as a negative, especially looking at who you were pinging to that thread.
Was I wrong or are you just trying to be slick?
*Cue Twilight Zone music*
You know there's something bad somewhere.
:-)
You can’t believe anything you read in the papers anymore!
Well, I think you can. You just need to gather up all the rest of the facts. Things are usually true "as far as they go" and when you gather the full context and any other details, it usually makes more sense ... see Post #199 ...
As an infant she lived in the lower 48
I don't think so... :-) ... see Post #199 ...
This is a BOGUS and totally UNSUBSTANTIATED story that only far-leftist extremists will believe.
Well... not quite so (not as you say, anyway...) ... see Post #199 ...
What a load...Sarah is too smart to ever say such a thing...just the left ramping up for a major push on single payer health care...and spreading lies to do it.
Don't dismiss the whole thing, as she did say they went to Canada ... see Post #199 ...
Some people meed to reset the sensitivity of their freakout triggers, and remember that those who will criticize SHP over this would criticize her if she said the sun was shining.
I think they do, too... LOL ...
It's no big deal when you see what she said. I had to laugh at everyone freaking out here... :-)
No one involved in spreading this non-story around has even stopped to consider Alaska's extremely rugged geography.
Yeah, it is. But I love all the denial early on in the thread. Fairly hysterical stuff.
Yes, the denial was based on "knee-jerk" responses and not with "facts in hand"... and now that we see the actual quote, it's no big deal ... see Post #199 ...
That’s why it always pays to get the accurate quotes and then get the “rest of the facts” and settle down and look at it... no use getting all excited about nothing... :-)
You got it.....a lot of excitement over nothing.
Let’s have a full accounting of what Obama did in his first five years of life. Did he ever receive healthcare anywhere outside the US? How about schooling?
I agree with you completely.
Back in 1971, we lived in Youngstown, NY, right across the Niagara River from Canada. We traveled over an hour to a hospital in Hamilton, Ontario to have our fourth and last child, instead of a good hospital 15 minutes away from us just outside Niagara Falls.
Why? Because the hospital in Canada guaranteed that my husband could be in the delivery room to see his last child enter the world. No other hospital would do this at that time.
Would people consider me a hypocrite today for opposing the health care bill proposed? I would hope not, for if the situation were the same today, I would go to Canada again. All that “free choice” stuff, you know?
In case it hasn’t been posted
The writer for this hit piece, Eric Zimmermann has also been a writer at the Far Left “New Republic”
He has written other hit pieces on Sarah Palin.
This is so typical of many FReepers.
They look for the Liberal lies - hit pieces on Sarah Palin
and post them.
Then there are the FReepers who read the post and believe it
and others who don’t have a clue.
Again, The Liberals, Neo Leftist PaulBots and WannaBies
do not want to see the Conservative Republican Sarah Palin
run in 2012 because she is the one who can beat Obama.
That's a "natural" and goes without saying...
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I wonder if Sarah paid for the hospital bill for her own birth... or did she mooch off her parents or something for that???
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