Comments on: Sarah Palin Has A CareCard http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/sarah-palin-has-a-carecard Committees exist to share blame. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:11:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jared http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/sarah-palin-has-a-carecard/comment-page-1#comment-72859 Jared Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:16:50 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/sarah-palin-has-a-carecard#comment-72859 I saw the original article on dead trees and was shocked that this was just mentioned in passing. <a href="http://gawker.com/5488296/sarah-palin-supports-government+run-health-care-inadvertently-uses-ironic-correctly" rel="nofollow">Gawker has made a bit more out of it</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lincoln-mitchell/sarah-palins-canadian-hea_b_490970.html" rel="nofollow">Huffington spins it into analysis</a>. But as <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/palin-in-hot-water-for-anecdote-that-her-family-saw-yukon-doctor/article1494080/" rel="nofollow">Ibbitson points out in The Globe</a>, Whitehorse was probably the closest hospital to Skagway and Canada doesn't charge that much for health care. When my friend Marni first moved back to Canada from the US she was, like Don, under the waiting period. She had to spend two days in the hospital. Afterward she phoned all her friends in the States to gloat about how low the bill was. I saw the original article on dead trees and was shocked that this was just mentioned in passing. Gawker has made a bit more out of it and Huffington spins it into analysis. But as Ibbitson points out in The Globe, Whitehorse was probably the closest hospital to Skagway and Canada doesn’t charge that much for health care.

When my friend Marni first moved back to Canada from the US she was, like Don, under the waiting period. She had to spend two days in the hospital. Afterward she phoned all her friends in the States to gloat about how low the bill was.

]]> By: Don http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/sarah-palin-has-a-carecard/comment-page-1#comment-72855 Don Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:17:24 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/sarah-palin-has-a-carecard#comment-72855 There doesn't seem to be any indication that Palin did anything fraudulent, aside from that conclusion being jumped to by a bunch of Americans on Daily Kos with their assumptions about how "free health care" provided by the "Canadian government" works. Having received basic health care in Ontario during the three-month waiting period as a renewed resident, I had to pay for it directly. Upon reading Palin's remarks, it never even occurred to me that she got it without paying for it. It is <i>possible</i> that she received it fraudulently, but that wasn't my assumption and nothing in her remarks seem to indicate that. Besides, I think the real story here is her hyprocrisy - She says that "socialized medicine" is greatly inferior, it has "death panels", and the Canadians need to switch to a for-profit private system, but then it comes out that it was perfectly good for her family to repeatedly use. There doesn’t seem to be any indication that Palin did anything fraudulent, aside from that conclusion being jumped to by a bunch of Americans on Daily Kos with their assumptions about how “free health care” provided by the “Canadian government” works.

Having received basic health care in Ontario during the three-month waiting period as a renewed resident, I had to pay for it directly. Upon reading Palin’s remarks, it never even occurred to me that she got it without paying for it. It is possible that she received it fraudulently, but that wasn’t my assumption and nothing in her remarks seem to indicate that.

Besides, I think the real story here is her hyprocrisy – She says that “socialized medicine” is greatly inferior, it has “death panels”, and the Canadians need to switch to a for-profit private system, but then it comes out that it was perfectly good for her family to repeatedly use.

]]>