Ratigan: Liz Cheney UnAmerican, Sarah Palin Healthcare hypocrite crosses the border as a kid..

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the boarder stayed in the boarding house

I just noticed that - typo.

Liz Cheney is the most consistently un-American of the conservative commentators out there, with the possible exception of Michele Bachmann. Between the two of them, far-right-wing McCarthyism is clearly alive and well.

These are two mentally deficient women who represent an anti-woman party and its explicitly un-American views. Yuck!

but being un american is becoming fashionable

Just checking the timeline of things... maybe it wasn't the cost that sent them over but availability. Alaska got nothin' but ice, oil, moose and gold, right? </sarcasm>

Some of those places up the Alaska inlet are small and don't have a hospital. There is a HWY that easily goes to Whitehorse from Haines otherwise there was just a clinic in Haines when I went through there in the late 70's. I did visit the hospital in Whitehorse because of an infection and the doctor came in in the middle of the night and gave me great care and antibiotics...never got a bill and there was no paper work other than they took my address.

She was a kid and didn't have a lot of say in what her parents did.

However...if her parents lived near Anchorage or Fairbanks and were just jumping the border to avoid paying U.S. health insurance premiums I think that should be brought up as relating to health care costs in the U.S.

And it shoots a hole in the argument that Canadians have a "sub-standard" health system. The story doesn't go, "We crossed the border and then waited a week to be seen by a doctor..."

Canadian single payer health care came into effect nationally on January 1, 1966 (actually 11:59 December 31, 1965, if you want to be exact)

OTTAWA — Sarah Palin should listen to her mother.

That was the advice from one MP Tuesday following the former U.S. vice-presidential hopeful’s revelation that her parents had sought medical treatment from the Canadian health-care system she has so often criticized.

“Of course her parents chose Canada for health care, it’s the best health-care system in the world,” said NDP health critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis. “Too bad Sarah Palin doesn’t realize it now.”

The comment came after Palin told a Calgary audience Saturday night that her family had first-hand experience with Canada’s health-care system when she was growing up in Skagway, Alaska, near 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,” Palin was quoted as saying by The Canadian Press.

Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett, who is also a doctor, said the Palin family’s story is not unique.

“Certainly as a family doctor I treated lots of Americans.”

When she testified before a U.S. Senate committee in September, Bennett told the story of a U.S. Vietnam veteran who had to go to Canada for cancer treatment because he couldn’t afford medical care in the country he fought for.

Bennett said Palin should bear in mind the high cost of medical care is a leading cause of bankruptcies in the U.S.

“Criticizing our system isn’t helping her fellow Americans.”

"hustled" over the border into Canada to get health care. She has found it very profitable to continue her "hustling" apparently.