Palin's Father: Twice We Had No Choice But Canada For Health Care

I guess the Left has tried to make something out of this. But there's no there there. Palin's Father says they would have preferred to stay home for health care on two occasions they went to Canada, but travel problems forced the choice. Big whoop!

Palin's father said Monday they had little choice, given their location in Skagway.

"There was no road out of there at that time," said retired teacher Chuck Heath, reached by phone in Wasilla. "The ferry schedule was very erratic. We had no doctor in Skagway. The plane schedule was very erratic. The winds dictated whether the planes could come in or not."

Palin's health care history, even when she was a child, is of interest because of her criticism of Obama and other Democrats working on U.S. health care.

Palin has been a frequent critic of big government and socialized health care, a seeming contradiction for someone whose family once took advantage of it in Whitehorse.

Palin in August called Obama's health plan "downright evil" in a Facebook posting and said he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Americans. Democrats including Obama have dismissed that as a distortion.

Palin's father said his family probably boarded the train for the Whitehorse hospital only twice - once when a daughter had rheumatic fever, and once when his son, also named Chuck, severely burned his leg and an infection set in.

"We much preferred to use our facilities because my insurance didn't cover anything in Whitehorse. And even though they have socialized medicine, I still had to pay the bill, being an American citizen," Heath said.

Comments

[unseen]

The left just can't help themselves. The Leno show drove them insane. that's 4 fake "scandals since the show. I think we need to to start grading Palin's national appearences on the ratio of false attacks the left make. After the TPN they also did the same thing. If we are using this grade the left thinks the Palin/Leno thing was about 4 times better than her TPN speech.

You go girl. get them all wee-weed up!

[Dave B]

I'm not sure I understand the connection with Mr. Heath's statements and Sarah Palin having concerns over the American Health Care situation and what a government takeover of the process would do to the current situation. If anything it makes it all the more understandable. "Unseen" is right, we can now measure how well Sarah Palin does by the ferocity of attacks immediately afterwards. Do they realize yet that the more they attack this courageous patriotic woman, the more our affinity towards her grows?

[Scott]

Huh? I don't get it. What's your point? Scratching my head here.

[Denis Keohane]

At the time Palin received medical care in Yukon, Canada (the sixties) there was no national health care there. That came in 1972. The Palin's crossed a border to get to the closest private medical care available!

[Ron Rust]

The Palen's use of Canadian medical care is not unique - it went the other way too. I once worked on a project in Calgary with a woman whose father was a Canadian mining engineer. When she applied for a passport to visit the US she found that she was not technically a Canadian citizen. She had been born in an Alaskan hospital since there was no facility near the mining camp. She had to renounce her American citizenship (I know, I know, just because your mother drops you in the US, why should you be a US citizen? but that's another topic). I assume in the situation I described the Canadian government or the company paid the medical bills.

It is amazing all of the information gathered about the Palens and not a bit about Obama's visit to Pakistan or his school records. My mother (91) kept all of her children's report cards. While sorting materials to help her move I found drafts of a term paper I did in high school (not just the paper but all of the drafts and research notes). Some Barry's records must be somewhere if anyone in the press really gave a damn.

[John Ryan]

Actually all of the Provinces had opted into HIPS which paid 50% of hospital costs by the early 60's And Sarah had a different remembrance of her brother's burn when she visited Skagway as a governor. In her interview with the local newspaper she said that her mother had taken her brother to Juneau on the (socialized/subsidized) Alaska Marine Highway System, the ferry. Of course that was when she was also bragging about her signing a funding bill for the ferry .
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Palin drew from her Skagway past to illustrate her point. Her brother burned his foot badly jumping through a fire, and her mother had to take him down to Juneau on the ferry to the hospital. “All these years later, that’s still what people have to rely on here in some instances,” she said.
here is a link to that newspaper article. the quote is from the sentence just above her single pic
http://www.skagwaynews.com/051107GovPalinvisit.html
so either socialized medicine or a socialized ferry sysytem

[buckjohnson]

Ron, what would you care if you found Pres. Obama' 8th grade term paper? What insight will that bring you? I could care less about your term papers or the President. as you pointed out, the only person who care would be Mothers, and Pres. Obama's is dead, so no one should care what he wrote about when he was 13, or 20, or even 25.

[william Jenkins]

Buck Johnson is a troll and so asks troll questions