Palin Went to Canada for Healthcare

lol. :grin:

Perhaps. At a minimum however (since we don't know the details), it would indicate that some of the fear mongering regarding socialized medicine - as Palin is apt to do herself - is stupidly overblown. I don't think that the BS is deniable in that regard.

One of the client's I work for currently is Canadian. I asked him about the healthcare and he says it's great - there can be queuing, but it's an issue of priorities, no different really than what you see at any US hospital.

He was angry about the rather stupid decision made a few years ago to cap doctor salaries. That totally hosed the country and they're still trying to recover from the brain-drain since many doctors naturally left the country for higher pay. Lesson: socialism has to be tempered with a dose of pragmatism in a worldwide economy, lest you become North Korea.

 

The Heaths were living in Skagway, so Whitehorse was the closest hospital apparently. There is also another version of the story where they never even went to Canada, but instead went to Juneau. Either way, it happened when she was five years old and was to get emergency care for a burn on her brother's foot. Also noteworthy is that at the time, only hospital coverage had been covered by national insurance, so truly socialized medicine had not even come to the Yukon at the time. That the left is trying to make political hay from this story is laughable.
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