Oh, Canada
Cliff
"Palin tells Canada to get rid of public health care"
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Oh, Canada -- beware American ideologues bearing advice.
Sarah Palin inadvertently stepped into Canadian politics earlier this week when
she told the crew of a CBC comedy show that America's northern neighbor should
"reform its health care system and let the private sector take over" the
country's medical services.
Comedian Mary Walsh of the comedy show This Hour Has 22 Minutes, a sort of
Canadian Daily Show, stormed a recent Palin book-signing in Columbus, Ohio, and
said to the former Alaska governor: "I just wanted to ask you if you have any
words of encouragement for Canadian conservatives who have worked so hard to try
to diminish the kind of socialized medicine we have up there."
....
While Canadians have long debated what sort of health care system would be best
for the country, the idea that Canada should let the private sector take over
delivery of health services will likely go over like a lead weight up north --
even among conservatives.
A recent study (PDF) found that 90 percent of Canadians support universal,
single-payer health care. A poll taken last summer shows 82 percent of Canadians
believe their health care system to be better than the US's, despite constant
grumbling about waiting times for treatment of non-life-threatening conditions.
This would not mark the first time that Palin has been punked by a Canadian
comedy team. In November, 2008, days before the presidential election, two
Montreal shock-jocks convinced Palin that she was on the phone with French
President Nicolas Sarkozy.
....
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edi...@netpath.net
run their country - when their own elites sermonized to us about how
to run our gun laws and health care financing.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/08/04/where-is-your-townhall/ is
the all-states, continually-updated calendar of "town halls."
http://www.Internet-Gun-Show.com - your source for hard-to-find stuff!