Sarah Palin gave a speech in Calgary over the weekend where she acknowledged that her family used to cross the border into Canada to receive medical treatment when she was younger. I found this interesting, because Sarah Palin is one of the biggest opponents of socialized medicine. This article talks about how she has formerly done nothing but bash Canadian health care and the proposed health care plan of President Obama as "evil." I find it strange that Palin would wait until now to mention that her family had taken advantage of Canadian health care when she has been constantly bashing the proposed health care plan in the United States. I know that politicians withhold information all the time, but it still bothers me when it comes out.
I understand that it was not Sarah Palin's choice to go to Canada for health care when she was a child, but it was her choice to leave out that she had actually received good treatment from a socialized health care system. She made the choice to accuse socialized medicine as being bad when she knew for a fact that it obviously wasn't all bad, considering how much it helped her family. Maybe I'm just making a big deal out of this because I think Sarah Palin is a psycho, but is anyone else bothered by this? If universal health care was good enough for you when you were young, what makes you too good for it now?
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