Sam Stein – Mon Mar 8, 12:26 pm ET
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.
"We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada," Palin said in her first Canadian appearance since stepping down as governor of Alaska. "And I think now, isn't that ironic?"
The irony, one guesses, is that Palin now views Canada's health care system as revolting: with its government-run administration and 'death-panel'-like rationing. Clearly, however, she and her family once found it more alluring than, at the very least, the coverage available in rural Alaska. Up to the age of six, Palin lived in a remote town near the closest Canadian city, Whitehorse.
Officials at several hospitals in that area declined to give out information on patient visits.
4 comments:
Now I really cannot stand her, but how is it news that her family took here to a neighboring community to get health care when she was 6? Are we really judging people on what their parents did when they were a toddler?
It wasn't a neighbouring community, it was CANADA. That would be a foreign country.
Her parents were Socialists! Augh!
Palin says whatever the audience wants to hear. She is the poster child for a sell out.
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