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.
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It is incredible the lows that American political debate has sunk too in the last year. A national figure who doesn't read, quits her job in the middle, and admits to being a hypocrite on one of the main issues of the day--- just another low which I never thought we'd reach. Between congressional Republican leaders who are emulating Ms. Palin, a national RNC chair whose flipped out, fix news, and the emerging teabaggers there is no shame! Only a sense of entitlement to their own feelings. But the Dems have been remarkably ineffectual, even Axelrod wonders why. Wake me up from this nightmare.
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