Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care

[jlzinck]

By the ever so reliable Huffington Post. We get this incredible "news" story

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/201...uffpost/490080

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care -- admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada's single-payer system.

Of course she was 6 or so. LOL

From her recent speech in Calgary:

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.

Edit: The BEST part is the parroting lemmings in the comments section of the linked story. Worth reading.

[Star_Cards]

interesting to know, but hardly a story proving her to be a hypocrite. lol.

I'm in no way a fan of Palin. Most people don't have properly formed opinions in our twenties let alone at 6 when your parents cart you around. Anyone trying to use this as ammo saying she's hypocritical will simply look foolish.

It would be interesting to hear why her parents chose that route and if they feel differently now, why exactly.

[OnePimpTiger]

Seriously, how ridiculous. I don't like Palin either and I pray she's nowhere around for the 2012 elections, but to make anything of this is foolish and desperate. Regardless of whether or not she had formed a valid opinion on the merits of socialized health care at the age of 6 (see how ridiculous that sounds?), she had absolutely no control over the choice of her health care, any decisions were 100% made by her parents. So even if 6 year old Sarah Palin had said, "Mother, father...I don't agree with the fundamental principles behind the single-payer, socialized health care system incorporated in Canada and would prefer utilizing the capitalist, private sector system used in America instead," her parents would have said, "Awww, how cute...our little politician!" and took her to Canada anyway.

Not to mention the fact that even today, there's only one road out of Skagway, AK...going straight to Whitehorse. It was either drive 80 or so miles to Whitehorse or drive a few hundred miles or go by boat or plane to an American town.

[Star_Cards]

the sad thing is these are the types of things discussed instead of the actual issues that are important.