Comments on: Palin’s Family Snuck Across the Border for Socialized Medicine. Or Did They?

By: EileensHoot

EileensHoot — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:08:24 +0000

This Canadian fervently hopes that LYING Sarah Palin will quickly have a complete mental breakdown and disappear from the public view.

If people do not realize Palin is not of sound mind…they should join her in a mental institution.

At the same time I encourage ALL Alaskans not to vote Palin’s clone Sean Parnell back in as Governor…have you not learnt a valuable lesson. The man is following in the footsteps of his friend and sponsor Sarah Palin.

Sincerely,
Eileen C. Tallon { aka EileensHoot }

By: The QM

The QM — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:35:09 +0000

Whats the point anymore. Scarah will always be promoting herself, making sure she’s in the spotlight and that the $$$$ keeps rolling in. A totally self-serving, narcissistic individual, who loves the sound of her own voice, her photo shoots and truly thinks people like her. Actually in my opinion the only reason she gets so much attention, except for those neo-con wingnuts, is because watching her perform is like watching a train wreck. She is a self-opening pinata, you just don’t know where the c**p is going to fall.

By: Wayne Patrick

Wayne Patrick — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:47:09 +0000

She’s an IDIOT. What does it say about Americans, that actually listen to her and thinks shes political material, there IDIOTS also.

By: Neighbour

Neighbour — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:55:12 +0000

Beth I would say yes they would get our “socialized” medical coverage right away in Calgary Alberta.
(snip)
“Yes. Employers must ensure that temporary foreign workers have health insurance coverage from the moment they start working in Alberta.
In Alberta, foreign workers with a work permit valid for 12 months or more are eligible to apply for immediate Alberta Health Care coverage. However, the employer can require the foreign worker to pay for the health insurance.”

http://www.law-faqs.org/wiki/index.php/Temporary_Foreign_Workers/General#If_a_Canadian_employer_hires_a_foreign_worker.2C_is_that_employer_responsible_for_that_worker.E2.80.99s_health_insurance_while_he_or_she_is_in_Canada.3F

By: indy_girl

indy_girl — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:08:07 +0000

AP–Sarah Palin, in Texas for the day, recalled a childhood memory and the city’s meaning to her family.

“Ya know, when my brother Chuck was little, he burned his foot jumping over a fire and my dad wanted him to have the best possible medical care. So of course we zoomed right on down to Alaska’s little sister state, and ever since that day Texas has had such a special place in our hearts!”

By: beth

beth — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:31:16 +0000

Thanks for info on who is eligible to use the socialized {ptui!} healthcare system in Canada, ‘pups.

The reason I asked the question in the first place (way back @ 97) was that the folks SP Saladed in Calgary seemed to be a mighty friendly audience…and I’d read that many of the audience were USAns working there with the oil/gas industry. That got me to wondering if they [the USAns in the crowd] were also too ‘covered’ by the Canadian system for healthcare.

From the links provided by ‘pups in this thread, I followed on to other links and found that those folks [the USAns] living/working there would have to have permission, a “temporary work permit”, from the Canadian gov’t to do so. [see: http://canadaonline.about.com/od/immigration/ss/work-permits_2.htm ] (Uunfortunately, all the links/connections to Health Ministries of Provinces and Territories are ‘down’ at the moment, so I can’t check to see if, as holders of Temp Work Permits, they’d be included as beneficiaries of the contemptible and damnable spawn of Satan – that great scourge of the earth: socialized {ptui!} medical care.)

Anywho, I just got to wondering: Were the USAn “temporary work permit” holders eligible for the socialized {ptui!} medicine practiced in Canada and did they avail themselves of it? beth.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:18:46 +0000

I have to first weigh in on Canadian Healthcare for “foreigners” – several year ago we were in the US visiting (for you who don’t know me, I’m American, husband is French and we are residents of France) and we drove to spend a few days with friends in Canada outside of Montreal. Our son had a herpes outbreak on his cheek (which happens once or twice a year) and it moved into his eye. If not treated right away this causes blindness. Our friends sent us to their local health clinic. We waited in line most of the day but finally got in to see the doctor. My husband who accompanied our young son in, said the doctor was extremely kind and gentle with our son and an excellent doctor. He prescribed both a cream and drops for him. We paid $20 Canadian then walked out into the hall and found the pharmacy and bought the medecine – for a fairly low price. My husband pointed out that he was happy that this had happened in Canada not in the US because in the US the cost would’ve been too high for both the doctor’s visit and the medecine.

As for Sarah, she lies and cares nothing about getting caught in lies. So, what’s new? She also takes a stance on issues even if her experience points in the opposite direction, but the stances she takes are purely political, so what’s new?

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:08:27 +0000

Sorry, I don’t want to overstate things but I thought I better mention the fact that a close personal friend had a heart transplant here in Canada and it didn’t cost him a dime ………. thats right, not a dime …….. and oh yea …. both my children born in our medicare system never cost me a medical dime either ….. I could go on ……. but really just implement universal public healthcare and join the rest of the civilized world! After a few years you won’t be able to imagine a life without it ….. promise!

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:20:18 +0000

The whole incident would be utterly laughable if it weren’t for the pure nasty ugliness of her lies about death panels etc.. The whole health care debate is regarded with total astonishment and bewilderment outside of the US. For those of us who have enjoyed the benefits of universal public healthcare for many years in the rest of the industrialized world, this insane debate underlined by Palin’s lunatic statements coupled with all of the other moronic rhetoric from the american right on healthcare prompts many of us to actually fear for the collective mental health of our american cousins. God people get a grip ….. its UNIVERSAL PUBLIC HEALTHCARE NOT SATAN or whatever demonic delusional plot that you fear it to be!!

By: Pat, Washington state

Pat, Washington state — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:24:41 +0000

I think what we are seeing is that some of those “real Americans” have a sense of entitlement – “I’m a real American so I deserve the best, whether it’s in my own country or anywhere else in the world.” They don’t see the hypocracy or even the inconsistency in their words or actions. And that kind of attitude is the reason Americans get a bad name in other places around the world. Sarah Palin and her ilk are the new face of the Ugly American.

They are the kind of people who cause some of us to cross the street when we see them coming when we travel outside the United States.