When Sarah Palin sampled Canada’s health care system
Over the weekend, Sarah Palin went to Canada, where she confessed that, as a child, she and her Alaskan family sampled that nation’s health care system.
Said Palin:
“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.”
It was a closed event, so word has been slow getting out. Jason Markusoff with the Calgary Herald captured the ins and outs of the former Alaskan governor’s remarks:
Given all the politician-turned pundit’s warnings about the ills of expanding government role in U.S. health care (see: panels, death), this was, yep, pretty ironic-sounding. Now in fairness, she was born in Idaho and them moved to Alaska as an infant in 1964, two years before the Medical Care Act that established national medicare came to Canada. Several years after universal coverage came to acute hospital care like burns, mind you. But then, it’s not exactly anybody’s political choice where they receive medical attention when they’re less than five years old, to say nothing of the political ideologies one doesn’t really develop around that age.
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Glenn
March 9th, 2010
11:24 am
Sarah Palin is from a small town in Alaska . That really is no big news . The fact that her grand daughter is on a granny killing public healthcare plan with the amount of money she has earned over the last year is much more telling .
Well...
March 9th, 2010
11:42 am
So how’d that socialized health care thingy work out for ‘ya Sarah?
Typical hypocrite.
Lucas
March 9th, 2010
11:43 am
Yep. Given the unwed mom daughter and the special needs kid, she seems pretty ungrateful for the social safety net that she’s cashing in.
East Lake Ira
March 9th, 2010
11:45 am
She’s also told the same story but said she and her family had to ride a ferry to an Alaskan city for the treatment. This was an anecdote she shared when advocating for subsidies to keep the ferry up and running as I recall.
The real takeaway from this story is not that she used the Canadian health system as a child; rather, it is just more evidence of her inablity to tell the truth.
It would be nice if she could explain why it is okay for her and her family to recieve free health care – due to her husband being one half Native Alaskan – provided by the government and it is not okay for the rest of the citizenry of the US.
Please run for President Sarah! PLEASE!!??!
georgiadawg70
March 9th, 2010
11:59 am
All of you losers who want the achievers to pay for you healthcare, keep bashing Palin. Everything you say about her you said about Ronald Reagan and remember what happened. Be carefull what you wish for.
ELEPHANTSOCIALIST
March 9th, 2010
12:03 pm
Ironic?
Sarah is getting in where she fits in. She has no business in public office. She is not smart enough, she can’t even run her household. Let her make her money being a baffoon.
Now, to all of you “Elephants” on the right, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Look around you and you will see that most of the people that agree with you are angry old WHITE PEOPLE(and a spattering of insane minorities). Steele looked like someone ate his last apple pie(and watermelon)when he was questioned about the FEAR tactics exposed via the document in Boca Raton, FL. You guys will do ANYTHING to win and gain control. You are the biggest group of NARCACIST I have ever seen!
Canada, the European Union and several other counties have had Universal Healthcare for some time now, and IT WORKS!
How about this:
1. Let’s expand healthcare to all by allowing everyone to buy into the “Government Option” which should be the same health care that our elected officials have. It should drive those rates down since you already have a number of folks already in it. Let your income dictate whether or not the government subsidizes your premium. There will be people that can’t pay (due to unemployment, disability, etc.), they should be screened and subsized. As long as an unemployed worker is actively looking for work (and can prove it by coming to the Unemployment Office or some other verifiable means) they should be covered.
2. The biggest problem with the Universal Healthcare that is well documented is long wait times for specialist. Well, we like to do things better in America so we should attack this problem with our technology, better communication and compensation. On top of that, those that want to keep their private insurance and have access to faster specialist service, can do so. But, for the person who had NO HEALTHCARE before, a couple of months to wait for an elective surgery would be nothing compared to not having the procedure at all.
If you have Medicare or if you are a Veteran (like my Dad), you are on Socialized Medicine! It is working just fine, at least folks are covered.
WAKE UP AMERICA! THESE ELEPHANTS ARE TRYING TO TRICK YOU, BUT THEY ARE JUST TO BIG, BOLD, ARROGANT, AND STUPID ALL AT THE SAME TIME. YOU ELEPHANTS NEED TO HAVE COMPASSION FOR OTHERS AS YOU WADDLE AROUND IN YOUR CAPITALISTIC TRANCE, PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR THE LITTLE GUY THAT YOU MAY SQUASH UNBEKNOWNST TO YOU.
WE ARE THE GREATEST NATION AND ALL OF OUR PEOPLE SHOULD BE COVERED, PERIOD!!!!!!!
IT IS NOT OBAMACARE, IT IS AMERICARE!
Red
March 9th, 2010
12:06 pm
I just love the obsessive liberals trying to desperately find a “gotcha” moment against Palin. This happened when she was a kid and her parents took her and her brother across the border. Healthcare in Alaska during the 60’s probably was not top billing. But somehow the liberals are so desperate to go after her, they try to pin her as a hypocrite for something her parents did back in the 60’s. If they would be honest, would they like to hold Obama accountable for the deadbeat father he had in the 60’s? Or hanging out with known Communists smoking pot? I’m willing to bet the standard applied here is only applied to Palin and not across the board.
On the obsession with Palin, I do find it ironic that the same liberals who will say “Palin is so insignificant and needs to go away” are the same ones who spend time on blogs, news, radio, etc. talking about her. If she didn’t matter, why are you Lefties so obsessed with talking about her? Palin is crack for liberals – you want to let go and drop the addiction but you just can’t.
Glenn
March 9th, 2010
12:12 pm
Georgiadawg . The achievers have been paying for Sarah Palins families healthcare . She has made her coin by playing fools like you . When were the Reagans on a socialized healthcare plan ? Please fill me in . Be careful what I wish for ? If you are going to talk the talk , walk the walk . Speaking out against public services as being dangerous & deadly while using those very same services is as slimeball as it gets .
East Lake Ira
March 9th, 2010
12:27 pm
Red:
I’m not calling her out on what her parents did in the past. I’m calling her a liar.
See this article from 2007:http://www.skagwaynews.com/051107GovPalinvisit.html
Relevent quote: 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.
The point is that she lies. She lies so easily it’s funny – sort of like a two year old or something…
I hope she runs for President. Please work to see that happens!
Red
March 9th, 2010
12:34 pm
Wow. What a revelation. A politician tells details differently on something that happened 40-50 years ago. You must have amazing memory to call someone out on something like this. I hope every one of your stories are as accurate. And I hope your same standard is applied to every other politician who lies on more things more recently. Do you call Obama and Hillary out on their BLATANT lies? Or Biden? Or any of the other liars in elected office? Amazing how details from decades ago is now the measuring rod for hypocrisy for one woman but yet the man running the country is given multiple free passes on lies he tells on a daily basis.
But that sort of thing is OK right Ira?
East Lake Ira
March 9th, 2010
12:44 pm
Red:
Stop deflecting. We’re talking about Sarah.
I’m not making this stuff up and you can’t stand it can you?
Three years ago Sarah stated that her brother was treated in Alaska. Now she says it was in Canada. One time it was by train and one time it was via a ferry. Two very different stories told to two very different constituencies for two very different reasons.
She shades the truth and outright lies about almost everything and you defend her?
Behold Conservative thinking.
Keep strong Red. America needs your special brand of reasoning if only to remind the sane that folks like you and Sarah can vote thus requiring the adults to keep you in check.
Run Sarah, run!!
Regina Bolton
March 9th, 2010
12:46 pm
Palin is a political prostitute. She should be home taking care of her promiscuous teenage daughter and her retarded kid.
Byron Mathison Kerr
March 9th, 2010
12:57 pm
Red, March 9th, 2010, 12:06 pm wrote:
I just love the obsessive liberals trying to desperately find a “gotcha” moment against Palin. …
But that is all that Sarah Palin is, just one big walking, talking “gotcha” — both sending and receiving.
Susan
March 9th, 2010
1:00 pm
Wow! AMERICAN CITIZENS CAN GO TO CANADA AND RECEIVE “SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE?”
Why do we have to have to spend trillions of dollars on our Healthcare, if we can just all go to Canada and get their “freebies?”
Seriously, people….please stop and think about how stupid this whole article is. Unless, of course, you think that little five year old Sarah Heath and her family had forged Canadian citizenship documents.
Chuck and Sally Heath took their small children to Canada, because in the remote village of Skagway, it was the closest doctor they could find….
Red
March 9th, 2010
1:08 pm
Deflecting? Merely pointing out you cannot apply the same standard across the board. Thus proving you are a hypocrite as well. Amazing how we pick and choose who we call hypocrite. Just as with all liberals, it is OK for them to lie and be a hypocrite but dare a Republican or conservative do this and it’s the end of the world.
Obama lies about the actual healthcare bill, terrorism, the military, etc. and you give him a pass. But yet Palin gives different accounts on a childhood memory and you obsessively troll the blogs screaming “Liar! Hypocrite!”. You just face the fact that you have double standards and are a hypocrite as well. So that makes you and Sarah two peas in a pod…except there seems to be many peas in this pod.
Red
March 9th, 2010
1:09 pm
Add to the fact I think people deep down have crushes on Palin. They seem to have nothing better to do than talk obsessively about her.
Atl1234
March 9th, 2010
1:13 pm
“She shades the truth and outright lies about almost everything and you defend her?”
Owebama shades the truth and outright lies about almost everything! Owebama OBAMUS so much they even invented a new word for his constant lying and ignoring of facts.
OBAMU: (v.) To ignore inexpedient and inconvenient facts or realities, think “Yes we can, Yes we can,” and proceed with optimism using those facts as an inspiration (literally, as fuel). It is used to elicit success in a personal endeavorour comments here
Army Brat
March 9th, 2010
1:15 pm
My great uncle is a Vet and appreciates the VA while his sister loves her Medicare Part D. Tell me why I shouldn’t be able to get into Medicare if I paid my share….?
Byron Mathison Kerr
March 9th, 2010
1:21 pm
Red, March 9th, 2010, 1:09 pm wrote:
Add to the fact I think people deep down have crushes on Palin. They seem to have nothing better to do than talk obsessively about her.
Or obsessively defend her? Do you have a crush on her, Red? Wouldn’t be anything wrong with that if you do.
Candace
March 9th, 2010
1:21 pm
Irony is a feature of Sarah Palin’s employment. Irony is generally not considered to be a part of every invested career or concern, unless she wants to hallucinate her problems onto others. Irony is in Palin’s head. It pertains to the fried brains of her associates, and it’s her responsibility as charge.
Susan
March 9th, 2010
1:23 pm
Red…
Sarah can’t eat a banana without it making HEADLINE NEWS…
Funny how something she recollects happening, when she was only five years old, is enough to send people into screaming, hysterical rants..but Obama…who has two different versions of how he met his wife Michelle (when he’s in front of college kids, he met her at College; when he’s in front of professionals, he met her at a Law Firm)…or whether his daughter was diagnosed with a serious case of spinal menigitis…gets a free pass for not being able to give a consistent account of some of the most important events in his adult life.
Go figure.
Red
March 9th, 2010
1:26 pm
I’m not obsessively defending her. Most of my comments have to do with applying the same standard to all of the lying politicians. Most of what I’ve said have nothing to do with her. I’m not the one saying “stop deflecting” and so insistent on staying on Palin and her history. I’m taking this to apply an equal standard across the board and getting chewed out for it. Perhaps to make this topic fair I should use Regina Bolton’s logic and attack our illegitimate child President and his retard policies. Since I am about an across the board fair kinda guy.
Red
March 9th, 2010
1:28 pm
Like I said Susan, Obama lies about policies that affect everyone in this country but yet that is fine with these liberals. Lying about something relevant to our nation is fine. Lying about something that impacts us all…oh no biggie.
East Lake Ira
March 9th, 2010
1:29 pm
Red and Susan:
What is truly amazing is that you cannot comment on anything without going “but but but Obama is a liar too!!”
Maybe he is and maybe he isn’t. The point is Sarah Palin is the focus of this blog entry and you two can’t stand that folks aren’t kissing her buttocks.
Perhaps if you learned to stay on topic, the readers of these comments might think better of you. As it is, you come across as petulant brats.
Thanks for the laughs.
Karen
March 9th, 2010
1:32 pm
I normally would never comment on these pages but Regina Boltons comments about Sarah Palin being a political prostitute and staying at home to raise her promiscuous teenage daughter and “retarded” kid really supports the evolution theory that we evolved from apes because her intelligence level is certainly less than human to say something so cruel about anyone. I hope you’re proud of yourself for attacking a defenseless baby Regina!
Jay
March 9th, 2010
1:32 pm
There was no socialized medicine in Canada during the 1960s, not until the early 1970s.
Red
March 9th, 2010
1:38 pm
Ira the blog police….speaking of deflecting. I honestly could care less what people on this blog think of me. Frankly I could care less what childish name you call me as well. I do again think it ironic that you call me names but say I’m childish. And rules for a blog? Honestly?
Fine. Let’s stay on topic. You’re making a hysterical issue about someone getting childhood memories mixed.up over two stories three years apart. Your stupid logic automatically assumes she’s lying. And YOU are making some stupid big deal over what her parents did 40 years ago. YOU are the one on here jumping up and down with your unmentionables in a wad about a meaningless story. YOUR side first screams about Palin wanting her to go away but yet YOUR side trolls the blogs giving stories like this even more face time. If Palin truly did not bother you, you would not waste your highly productive life on here arguing about her. But I see she really gets up under your skin and makes you tingle up and down your leg giving you urges to whine and complain about her every chance you get. It’s unhealthy. But maybe Obama’s health plan will cover shrink visits to treat such obsessions.
East Lake Ira
March 9th, 2010
1:47 pm
Red:
Thanks for reinforcing my previous points regarding your brand of Conservative thought.
Facts are not your friend. We get that now. Thanks.
Red
March 9th, 2010
1:52 pm
Ira, thanks for confirming how shallow thinking liberals are. I never said I was conservative. But yet you just assume anyone who points out Obama is a liar is automatically a conservative. I point out I hold all to the same standard. You show me you only hold “the other side” to a standard and give your side a free pass.
??
Facts are not even in your neighborhood. Neither is logic, reason, or the obvious. And as far as your assuming I am conservative? You know what they say about assuming.
Susan
March 9th, 2010
1:57 pm
East Lake Ira…
Oh, I see…you are concerned about Sarah Palin’s ability to remember events that occured when she was five? And if she can’t remember what happened forty years ago when she was FIVE YEARS OLD to your high standard of accountability, she is a liar and hypocrite…well…
Here’s what her father said about the incident when interviewed by the Associated Press (which seems to be the only media outlet trying to report this accurately.)
“There was no road out of there at that time,” said retired teacher Chuck Heath, reached by phone in Wasilla. “The ferry schedule was very erratic. We had no doctor in Skagway. The plane schedule was very erratic. The winds dictated whether the planes could come in or not.”
Palin’s father said his family probably boarded the train for the Whitehorse hospital only twice — once when a daughter had rheumatic fever, and once when his son, also named Chuck, severely burned his leg and an infection set in.
“We much preferred to use our facilities because my insurance didn’t cover anything in Canada. 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.”
There ya go, Ira.
Susan
March 9th, 2010
2:01 pm
Byron…”obsessively defend her”…is that what people are doing when they are trying to tell the truth?
Keep doing this GOP
March 9th, 2010
2:08 pm
If she can not remember events accurately then she should not put them out for the public. Maybe if the press would quit obsessing over her, maybe people on both sides would quit too. Her 15 minutes of fame should be over with by now.
BigD
March 9th, 2010
2:09 pm
Come on RED….anyone with that much of a boner for Palin MUST BE a conservative republican.
Ole Guy
March 9th, 2010
2:09 pm
Remember, her awareness of international issues is based on the fact that, on a clear day, she can actually see the USSR…WHATTA POLITICIAN! Anything she would have to say, which would be the product of her own intelect, as far as I’m concerned, is to be considered moot.
Red
March 9th, 2010
2:12 pm
Keep doing this GOP – can you send that same comment to the White House? This bit of advice might help their sinking poll numbers. Unfortunately, others’ inability to accurately remember POLICY and LAW and the CONSTITUTION stays with us longer than 15 minutes.
It’s kind of like Obama saying in 2005 that reconciliation goes against everything the Founding Fathers stood for and would create a constitutional crisis if used. But in 2010, it is just another means to pass healthcare. Amazing how 5 years just screws over your constitutional principles. Or did he just forget? Or lie?
Keep doing this GOP
March 9th, 2010
2:14 pm
Glenn… When were the Reagans on a socialized healthcare plan ? Please fill me in . When Ronald Reagan was the Govenor of California and also when he was President of the United States. All of our Congressmen and Senators are on a government health care plan as well.
Byron Mathison Kerr
March 9th, 2010
2:15 pm
Sarah Palin is to politics what TV wrestling is to sports — entertainment.
I don’t want her to go away. She serves a purpose. She’s the stand-up comedienne for the right-wing, government-phobic, unfettered free-market “so multi-national corporations can solve all our problems” crowd. She provides the vent for certain people’s perception of what’s wrong with things. And she provides amusement for the rest of us.
But I don’t want her to run for office, either. She brings gun-slinging, baby-daddy, survivalist, white-trash culture to the political arena. She doesn’t have any more solutions than she has clues. She’s just a dart looking for a dart board. She wouldn’t win an important seat, and she would only take up the space where a more serious candidate should be.
Sarah Palin is quite a character. I predict we will all be fascinated by her, in one way or another, until the shtick finally wears off.
Wow
March 9th, 2010
2:18 pm
BigD is thinking about some stranger’s anatomy. Regina is thinking about prostitutes. Quite a bit of pinned up sexual dysfunction and deviance going on here. Talk about staying on topic. How this one just went off the edge of the cliff. Red’s right. Some serious repression issues going on with the Leftists here.
Keep doing this GOP
March 9th, 2010
2:20 pm
It’s kind of like Obama saying in 2005 that reconciliation goes against everything the Founding Fathers stood for and would create a constitutional crisis if used. But in 2010, it is just another means to pass healthcare. Amazing how 5 years just screws over your constitutional principles. Or did he just forget? Or lie?
It is funny though, how both sides are now reversing course. Republicans used reconcilation a lot more to pass two tax cuts and the Medicare Part D Prescription Plan.And now they are saying reconciation is unconstitutional .
Partisans make me want to puke
March 9th, 2010
2:27 pm
Ira — Ol’ Red and Susan have a point in that any reasonable person is not going to hold someone accountable for recollection of an event that occurred when they were 5 years old. All politicians lie…it is part of the job description. The true irony is that she can acknowledge the benefits of Canada’s health care system when her family had little other means while at the same time joining Red and Susan and every other Republican in doing everything within their power to destroy any progress made in relation to our healthcare system simply because they do not want to see a progressive Democrat accomplish anything.
Red/Susan — don’t you know there are families here in America today who have find themselves in the same position as Sarah Palin’s family was in Alaska years ago? What do suggest they do? If you’re like most Republicans, you’ll say “It’s not my problem.” Unfortunately that’s not much help.
But heaven knows we can’t let the govt. get involved and regulate the insurance industry.
East Lake Ira
March 9th, 2010
2:29 pm
Susan:
Let’s play a game…
Obama says A happened.
Three years later he says B happened.
Both statements reference the same event but key facts are inconsistant and reworked to fit the topic at hand – whatever it may be – and supports a specific but different message.
What would you say that says about Obama?
What if Obama has a pattern of doing this same thing time and again?
What would you call Obama?
Laura T
March 9th, 2010
2:31 pm
Those of you who love this insane woman are adolescent, immature, delusional, and insane in your own right. You might want to grow up and start thinking with your pea brain instead of your pea member…Red. What the hell kind of name is ‘Red’ anyway. Redneck?
Wow
March 9th, 2010
2:31 pm
Uh yeah. Both sides are idiots. But wasn’t His Excellency supposed to change that? Wasn’t our breath of fresh air supposed to change politics as usual? Barry was supposed to be different. We heard angelic choirs singing about him – taking from Madam Clinton. We were supposed to see change on what Red said was lying and hypocrisy. Yeah both sides do it. But your great champion on change was supposed to be a little bit different was he not? Palin, the pundit, is harmless if she lies. But the Great One lies and we all pay for it literally. So I agree with Susan and Red. Leftists have time to point out what some person not even in elected office says but yet the leader of our Republic does this repeatedly and after selling the nation on a lie that he would be different.
Red
March 9th, 2010
2:38 pm
Laura – people who come on the blog and act the way you do are classy? Maybe I should emulate your great intellect in assuming someone “loves” this woman based on holding both sides accountable. I am amazed by how you draw your conclusions. And even more the intellect you show in your rebuttals. The only thing you can come up with is insult my name? Typical liberal response. you cannot come up with any sort of logical, reasoned thought. So you resort to just saying my name implies ‘redneck’. I know you meant that as an insult. but judging by your well thought out post, I’d say rednecks have a higher ability to respond than you. Come back when you can complete a focused and logical response.
Wow
March 9th, 2010
2:41 pm
Now Laura is jumping on the genital train. I see something in common with the statements by the Lefties…all revolve around some Freudian focus on sex. This is hillarious! Repression of a whole other sort!!!
Byron Mathison Kerr
March 9th, 2010
2:50 pm
To Wow, March 9th, 2010, 2:41 pm:
You believe the “Lefties” are sexually repressed? Who’d ‘a thunk it? Aren’t we “Lefties” usually accused of being just the opposite?
Windsonwinds
March 9th, 2010
2:55 pm
Sarah Palin was only a child when her family took her across the border for Canada’s health care. This is not hypocritical, since it was not her decision. I don’t know what world you are living in but 5 years old generally don’t make the medical decisions for their families.
In addition, Most Canadians now come to America for health care because they cannot get appointments with doctors in a timely manner and other problems. If you think government is the solution for health care, just look at all their other programs, which are currently flawed and poorly managed. The bigger government becomes, the less able they are to manage their affairs.
DMac8889
March 9th, 2010
2:58 pm
We already know that Sarah Palin is incorruptible. For thirty years one Alaskan politician after another took money or graft from the Big Oil companies so they could hold on to their leases and not drill up in Alaska. In two years Sarah Palin put an end to this. Unlike Hillary Clinton and all the other leaders of the DEMS Party, Sarah Palin has no corrupted political strings following her. The problem with all the anti-Palin commenters above is that they try to hold her to a higher ethical standard than any other politician.
Anyone who says she is stupid, Not one Palin supporter takes that seriously. We look at the judgments of our leaders in Washington and Sarah being POTUS is not a problem for us.
To ELEPHANT SOCIALIST: Handing out freebies is not what made this country great. To begin with right now anyone who wants healthcare can get it. You either pay by it by yourself, or the state picks up the bill Obama’s Plan has nothing to do with healthcare, it has to do with health insurance.
I have no problem with covering everyone with health insurance, but it should be done on the State level, not Federally. There is a huge difference and you being a Socialist understand the difference more than most. It’s about POWER AND REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH. The DEMS want all the money and power to be in on city, Washington D.C. It is easier to hold power in one city than it would be in 50 State Capitals. That is what the whole argument is about. POWER!
One more thing: If the Presidential election were run today Sarah Palin would beat Obama. Obama is a fraud and even the Progressive LEFT knows it.
Susan
March 9th, 2010
2:59 pm
1. The most vulgar sexual comments that are made about Sarah Palin come from Left-wing men who claim to hate her. Most conservative men are very respectful about her looks.
2. Sarah’s statements about the healthcare, come from what she remembers as a five year old little girl. Her brother received his initial “burn treatment” in Juneau. I wasn’t until the infection set in that they went to Canada for the emergency treatment.
3. You can see Russia from Alaska. Little Diomedes Island is only two miles from Russian soil. On a clear day, you can see Russia from Alaska. “Russia from my porch” was a quote by Tina Fey.
4. Partisans Make Me Want to Puke says: “The true irony is that she can acknowledge the benefits of Canada’s health care system when her family had little other means while at the same time joining Red and Susan and every other Republican in doing everything within their power to destroy any progress made in relation to our healthcare system simply because they do not want to see a progressive Democrat accomplish anything. Red/Susan — don’t you know there are families here in America today who have find themselves in the same position as Sarah Palin’s family was in Alaska years ago? What do suggest they do? If you’re like most Republicans, you’ll say “It’s not my problem.” Unfortunately that’s not much help.”
My response is this: Are you just making up your own little imaginary scenario here? The Heath family did not go to Canada to get socialized healthcare. American citizens don’t qualify for Canadian Healthcare…they have to pay for it.
If you notice in my above comment, Mr. Heath states that the only reason they had to go Canada was in emergencies (because the doctor in Canada) was closer. Mr. Heath also stated that he had TO PAY MORE when he went to Canada because his insurance was only good in the United States.
Try sticking to the facts. Sarah Palin has enough lies said about her, for people to be making up imaginary accounts from her childhood.
5. Laura T makes this lovely comment: “Those of you who love this insane woman are adolescent, immature, delusional, and insane in your own right. You might want to grow up and start thinking with your pea brain instead of your pea member…Red. What the hell kind of name is ‘Red’ anyway. Redneck?”
Do you think that really contributes to the discussion?
Michelle
March 9th, 2010
3:06 pm
I love Sarah. She is my God.