Half-Term Governor Sarah Palin, who once stated that Universal Health Care would lead to "Socialism" with Sean Hannity...
Hannity, who bragged that he was interviewing her near his New York home, asked Palin about the country's debt and Obama's federal programs, prompting Palin to outline her fears.
"Our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize, certainly that is so far from what the founders of our country had in mind for us."
Hannity interrupted her: "Socialism?"
To which Palin responded: "Well, that's where we are headed."
Has today admitted that she and her family used to use - the Canadian Health Care System.
PALIN: We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn’t that ironic?
"Ironic" isn't exactly the word I'd use for it.
A teeny bit of truthiness seems to have slipped out of Palin's Lips, but this isn't the first time she's admitted that before she had a considerable income her family faced some large difficulties with gaining access to Health Care. Via Thinkprogress.
This isn’t the first time Palin highlighted the difficulty of obtaining affordable health care in America. During the presidential campaign, Palin discussed how her and husband Todd had "gone though periods of our life here with paying out-of-pocket for health coverage until Todd and I both landed a couple of good union jobs."
Good Union Jobs!!
Out of pocket costs - like the ones that would be capped under the Health Care Proposal before the House - were too high?
Et Socialist Tu Sarah!
At the Vice Presidential debate, Palin recalled times in her marriage "in our past where we didn’t have health insurance and we know what other Americans are going through as they sit around the kitchen table and try to figure out how are they going to pay out-of-pocket for health care?"
You know what other Americans were going through? Really?
45,000 Americans A Year DIE because they don't have access to Health Care, is that how you felt Sister Sarah?
Is that why you said this on Facebook?
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
Apparently the America Sarah "Knows and Loves" is in Canada where no one who needs care would ever be turned away from it!
Nevermind the fact that the "End of Life Consultation Reimbursement" for Medicare really wouldn't have any impact What-so-Ever on the care of of a "Down Syndrome Baby" - and the fact that it's already a part of Medicare - Palin's second version of the "Death Panel" which would be the Medicare Advisory Board was also wrong, since the law as confirmed by the CBO specifically prohibits that board from recommending any type of "Rationing" of care.
Hannity: You say (Death Panels) still exist in the Bill?
Palin: I do because it's a commission, it's a bureaucracy who will ration care if the Bill goes through. It's modeled, in essence, on a British system that does have people to decide, based on your quality of life, your age, if you deserve health care coverage or not
Yeah, but as it turns out the Canadian Health Care System (originally called Medicare in 1962) - the one you and your family went running for the border to get - is based largely on the British NHS (formed in 1948).
In America Bureacrats at Insurance Companies are deciding whether you "deserve care" or not based on - whatever fracking excuse they can come up with to take your money, keep it, and give you next to nothing for it.
But then again, she didn't mean it "Literally".
"The term I used to describe the panel making these decisions should not be taken literally," says Palin. The phrase is "a lot like when President Reagan used to refer to the Soviet Union as the ‘evil empire.’ He got his point across. He got people thinking and researching what he was talking about. It was quite effective. Same thing with the ‘death panels.’ I would characterize them like that again, in a heartbeat."
This level of opportunistic, hypocritical, fear-mongering BULL CRAP - from a person who managed to partake of that "Socialist Evil Health Care System" when it suited her purposes should be called out loudly. It's good enough for her, but not for the rest of the American people who don't have easy access to Canada and a system that isn't based on wage discrimination?
Vyan