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Palin Sought Healthcare in Canada...or Juneau...or...

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UPDATED: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 20:31
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010 3:58 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Sarah+Palin+Canadian+health+care+li
nk+critics+sick/2661120/story.html



Alaskan governor “opportunistic” and “hypocritical.”

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“It’s good enough for her, but not for the rest of the American people who don’t have easy access to Canada and a system that isn’t based on wage discrimination?” the post made on the left-leaning political blog stated.

And Gawker.com also pointed out Palin’s comment, writing that her family put her brother on a train “and sent him to Canada for the socialism.”



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Tuesday, March 9, 2010 4:55 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


Looks like at that time it was a lot easier to get from Skagway to Whitehorse than to any medical center in Alaska for the two times the Palin family sent people there. Also, since the Palins were not Canadian, they had to pay cash for their treatment.

"We much preferred to use our facilities because my insurance didn't cover anything in Whitehorse. And even though they have socialized medicine, I still had to pay the bill, being an American citizen," Heath said.

Heath worked part-time for the White Pass & Yukon Railroad and had a pass allowing him and his family to ride for free.

The train in the 1960s often was the only option for getting to a doctor, Skagway Mayor Tom Cochran said."



http://wtop.com/?sid=1907325&nid=104

So BFD.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010 8:31 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Well, quoting Sarah:
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Sarah Palin told a Canadian audience Saturday that, as a child in Alaska, her family brought her across the border for medical care under the single-payer Canadian system.

"We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada," she said, in what the article describes as a reference specifically to Saskatchewan.

"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."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0310/Palin_as_a_child_went_to_C
anada_for_care.html?showall
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Everything you said is true about single payer not being in Canada at that time. She never mentioned that by "irony" she meant she went before Canada's health care was "socialized".

But how does one give her any credence when, in talking about the ferry system:
Quote:

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, that’s still what people have to rely on here in some instances,” she said.

http://www.skagwaynews.com/051107GovPalinvisit.html
....??



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