{"id":403276,"date":"2010-03-08T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78624"},"modified":"2010-03-08T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:03:20","slug":"palin-growing-up-i-%e2%80%98hustled-over-the-border%e2%80%99-for-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/403276","title":{"rendered":"Palin: Growing Up, I \u2018Hustled Over the Border\u2019 For Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medicine Hat News reports<\/a> on a speech Sarah Palin gave in Calgary (tickets as low as $150), where a folksy monologue took a shocking turn — an admission about how her family once received health care.<\/p>\n

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We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn’t that ironic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Palin, born in Idaho, lived in and around Wasilla, Alaska for most of her life. The nearest city in Canada, Whitehorse, is a 15 hour drive away. Anchorage is only 45 minutes away. I definitely want to hear more about this.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: I just checked my copy of “Going Rogue” and recall now that Palin spent the first few years of her life, up to age 6, in Skagway, a remote town in gold rush country only a few rough hours from Whitehorse. But it’s about as far from Skagway to Juneau, so the question remains why the family “hustled” to a country with, at the time, the beginnings of government-run health care.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: The Calgary Herald has a fuller, slightly different version<\/a> of the quote.<\/p>\n

My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse. Believe it or not \u2013 this was in the \u201860s \u2013 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\u2019t that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada.<\/p>\n

Via Will Bunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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