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Guess Who Used To Go To Canada For Health Care?
Topic Started: Mar 8 2010, 02:29 PM (965 Views)
QuirtEvans
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You betcha!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/08/palin-crossed-border-for_n_490080.html
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'Up until the age of six'. Utterly meaningless.

Quirt FTW on the prime non-starter of all time. :lol2:
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George K
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Sarah is the freakin' Goddess! Amazing that, even at the age of six, she was able to determine what the healthcare needs of her family were.

She coulda been a contenda!
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QuirtEvans
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Apparently, her family thought Canadian health care wasn't too substandard.
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This one is nice, too. It's an extra big wall version.
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Mikhailoh
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Well, since she was born in '64, and national coverge was ratified in 1966 and they ceased using it by 1970, they must not have liked it too awful much. Or perhaps they moved.

Besides - they lived near the border, and healthcare resources can be very scarce in the wilderness. It is not at all surprising they would go there.

You really are rather pathological about Sarah. Perhaps you should see someone about that. :P
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George K
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0310/Palin_as_a_child_went_to_Canada_for_care.html?showall
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UPDATE: Here's some more context: "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."

ALSO: Socialized medicine apparently only kicked in in Yukon in 1972, post-Palin.

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George K
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But wait! The story gets even better.

DID SHE LIE?????
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Palin has also told an alternate version of the story that had her family traveling south by ferry to Juneau from Skagway for treatment of her brother’s burned foot, rather than to Canada, according to a 2007 report posted by the Skagway News.

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


OH THE HORROR!

She lied about what happened when she was less than 10 years old. How can anyone, ANYONE, ever trust her again.
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I betcha she cant even see Russia from her house afterall.
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George K
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But Tina Fey can.
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Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

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George K
Mar 8 2010, 03:15 PM
But wait! The story gets even better.

DID SHE LIE?????
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Palin has also told an alternate version of the story that had her family traveling south by ferry to Juneau from Skagway for treatment of her brother’s burned foot, rather than to Canada, according to a 2007 report posted by the Skagway News.

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


OH THE HORROR!

She lied about what happened when she was less than 10 years old. How can anyone, ANYONE, ever trust her again.
Again?
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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George K
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QuirtEvans
Mar 8 2010, 03:28 PM
Again?
I dunno.

Maybe we should ask multiple sources in Wasila. :lol2:
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
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Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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QuirtEvans
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George K
Mar 8 2010, 03:29 PM
QuirtEvans
Mar 8 2010, 03:28 PM
Again?
I dunno.

Maybe we should ask multiple sources in Wasila. :lol2:
You can ask, but I'm not sure you'll get a very clear reply from a moose.
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Mikhailoh
Mar 8 2010, 02:32 PM
'Up until the age of six'
As if she'd be smart enough to compare the two systems even now.
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George K
Mar 8 2010, 03:15 PM
But wait! The story gets even better.

DID SHE LIE?????
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Palin has also told an alternate version of the story that had her family traveling south by ferry to Juneau from Skagway for treatment of her brother’s burned foot, rather than to Canada, according to a 2007 report posted by the Skagway News.

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


OH THE HORROR!

She lied about what happened when she was less than 10 years old. How can anyone, ANYONE, ever trust her again.
Sort of like the horror expressed here awhile back when Obama mistakenly attributed his meeting Michelle to when she was in law school? Boy, I remember hay made over that one at TNCR.
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George K
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Everyone who remembers where and how they met their spouse, raise their hands! :wave:

Everyone who remembers the hospital that their parents took their sibling to when they were six, raise their hands!
:leaving:
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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Yes, of course, of course, George.
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George K
Mar 8 2010, 03:44 PM
Everyone who remembers the country where the hospital was that their parents took their sibling to when they were six, raise their hands!


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jon-nyc
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On a more serious note, I'm wondering how they were able to go to Canada for treatment. Its not like they allow health care refugees from the US, else there'd be hundreds of thousands of us there.
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George K
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They paid for it?
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

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- Klaus, 4/29/18
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Mikhailoh
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Even in Saskatchewan, the first and only subsidized plan in Canada at that time, the government only paid 1/2 the bill. I suspect they charged US folks full rate.

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