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SushiSake3
It's ironic that Sarah Palin herself has put the final nail in the coffin of the campaign against healthcare reform - she's actually gone to Canada to receive healthcare. But...I thought America had the world's best healthcare system???
"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?""
Sure is.
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Odogma
SS3 leaves out some of very crucial info - - here is a little context for those who find irony in Palin's admission that as a child she took advantage of Canada's health care:
" 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," Palin said a speech Saturday night, according to the Calgary Herald."
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sailwind
Palin was a child in the mid-1960s when her family lived in Skagway, a southeast Alaska town near the Canadian border.
The only way out was by airplane, ferry or train, and when bad weather kept planes grounded, the train to Whitehorse often was the only option.
Palin told the Calgary audience her family would "to hustle on over the border for health care."
Darn that Palin!!!!! And her family, and that weather up there.
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SushiSake3
Odogma - I think you are missing the point completely: Palin's statements and actions expose her as a class act hypocrite. Much like the GOP senators who will happily accept taxpayer-funded health insurance plans while vehemently denying the same for uninsured Americans, slamming the stimulus while accepting its projects, you name it. I'm surprised you don't have any problem with this.
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sailwind
Sushi,
Palin was a child in the mid-1960s when her family lived in Skagway, a southeast Alaska town near the Canadian border.
The only way out was by airplane, ferry or train, and when bad weather kept planes grounded, the train to Whitehorse often was the only option.
A real hypocrite for her family using the only option available when the weather was bad right Sushi?
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sailwind
Sushi,
Another pesky little fact here. In the 60's Yukon didn't even have universal healthcare.
According to the summary of Canada’s health care system by Health Canada, it was only until 1972 that Yukon “create[d] medical insurance plans with federal cost sharing.”
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Odogma
She was a child. Her future in politics was decades away, as was Canada's shift to nationalised medicine.I read the link and immediately thought the real story is her parents, who wanted the best care available for their children, growing up in a town that even today has a population of less than a thousand.Just as many Canadians these days choose to exercise their free will and seek to choose from the best of what free markets make available in the region Palin's folks chose to do the same. Who wouldn't?
Thanks for posting the story. I love boomerangs.
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SushiSake3
Heck....what is this? The Defenders of Sarah Palin frat club? :-)
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adaydream
It's not amazing that the insurance companies are in cahoots with Goldman Sacks and Wall Street. It's something that the republicans don't want you to know.
Obama back on course to get this health care reform bill passed. < :-)
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Odogma
It's Goldman Sachs, and they are big supporters of both parties. You don't get to where they did any other way. As George Will pointed out the other day in schooling some poor flak for Obama, you could confiscate all of the profits the 'big' insurance companies made last year and it would represent two days' worth of the total cost of health care in America. Obama and his party are desperate to stir up class envy. But envy won't solve the problem...
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skipthesong
It's not amazing that the insurance companies are in cahoots with Goldman Sacks and Wall Street. It's something that the republicans don't want you to know."
I can't believe such a statement from someone who says he's a financial consultant.
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RomeoRamenII
I listen to outakes of this speech today on Rush's radio show. Obama sounded like a child who had his toy taken away.
Rush is correct in saying Obama and Pelosi are going for the scorched earth policy; do all the damage to America they can while they can.
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RomeoRamenII
ObamaCare is dead at this point. The House has to pass the Senate version exactly as the Senate passed it, including the threats of fines or jail time for not signing up and the abortion language.
If The One were as smart a guy as his dog walkers in the MSM portray him to be, he would cut his losses and let go of this bad, bad piece of legislation and get congress to start over and draft a better, bipartisan bill.
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OneForAll
I would like the healthcare bill but not with the forced payments, no conscience clause, and abortion being paid for by all who contribute. Tort reform would also be nice. Maybe we can all become Amish for I think there is a religious exception. This may very well be the way around this bill so that we can live lives according to our conscience. Ready for little religious communes everyone, helping each other out. Sounds like the rebirth of America.
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Sarge
The Democrats' health care reform legislation bites the big one.
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Molenir
See, thats the thing. Thats what most Americans would like. Lower cost, tort reform, and the ability to opt out if they decide its not working. But thats not the what the Dems want. They want to force everyone into this program, with the knowledge that it will create an additional system of class dependency. A system which favors the Dems in the long term. Thats why people have long been saying, this is not about health care, but rather, about power.
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