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.
From Sandpoint, ID to Creston, BC is 66.9 miles or 1 hour 44 minutes (just going by Google Maps).
I still don't believe she said this.
It sure does.
2. “Canadian Health Care” as we know it came into existence in 1984.
3. 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.
Sounds like a problem of time and distance.
http://www.alaska-map.org/images/map-alaska_04.jpg
Getting to Juneau from Skagway would mean a trip by air or sea.
Well it was the 1960’s
And Canada adopted single payer socilaized medicine in the 1970’s.
Um, it’s true though.
Sorry...I meant the source at the source...Medicine Hat.
If this is true, I think she was most likely trying to innoculate a story the press was already sitting on.
No. There was something here recently attributed to “Eric Zimmerman”.
I smell a rat.
So now the truth comes out. That is the missing link. This was a hit piece.
She drew on some Canadian connections in her family history, and recalled how when she was young, those who were ill went to Whitehorse for medical treatment.......
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hvMMcuuUOV53vHs0bJD-meBNuecQ
“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada,” she said. “And I think now, isn’t that ironic.”
The story left out the context as to her remarks. We know that now, so this story is a hit piece.
She said new DOT Commissioner Leo von Scheben is committed to a strong ferry system. She added that a lot of politics were played in the past, and that is why we changed characters, bringing in sound transportation minds to figure out how people who are reliant on the ferry system can get from point A to point B with a reliable schedule and service.Palin drew from her Skagway past to illustrate her point. Her brother burned his foot badly jumping through a fire, and her mother had to take him down to Juneau on the ferry to the hospital. All these years later, thats still what people have to rely on here in some instances, she said.
Yeah, it is. But I love all the denial early on in the thread. Fairly hysterical stuff.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Sarah Palin was born in 1964 and basic health care in Canada wasn’t socialized untilthe 70’s, was it?
If it is true, why would she not?
Found this:
This extensive national health system was begun in the late 1950s with a system of publicly funded hospital insurance, and completed in the late 1960s and early 1970s when comprehensive health insurance was put into place.
http://www.theadvocates.org/freeman/8903lemi.html
Note that is was in its early stages at the time Palin mentions.
So probably about where we are now, maybe.
As expected, the statement in full, with context, means exactly the opposite of what the leftist hack who wrote the article wanted it to mean. I truly hate these people.
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