Palin Suggests Reforming Canada’s Universal Health Care System: ‘Let The Private Sector Take Over’

[Joanne98]

Canadian comedian Mary Walsh (playing the character of Marg Delahunty) attended a Sarah Palin book signing in the United States last week and asked the “thrilla from Wasilla, the Alaskan Aphrodite” if she had “any words of encouragement for the Canadian conservatives who have worked so hard to try to diminish that kind of socialized medicine we have up there.”

“Keep the faith and that common-sense conservatism,” Palin said to Walsh, who was being pushed out of the store by bodyguards. “It needs to be plugged into Canadian policies too. Keep the faith!” Palin cried out.

After the event, Walsh waited in the loading dock of the Borders bookstore “close to where Palin’s bus was parked.” Palin came over and energetically encouraged Walsh to “keep the faith” again and suggested that Canada needs to reform its health care system to “let the private sector take over”:

WALSH: Ms. Palin, I tried to ask you a question inside, but I didn’t hear your answer! The Canadians! Ms. Palin!

PALIN: Well, my answer was too keep the faith. My answer was to keep the faith. Cause that common sense conservatism can be plugged-in there in Canada too. In fact Canada needs to reform its health care system and let the private sector take over some of what the government has absorbed. So thank you, keep the faith.

Watch it

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/25/palin-canadian-health-care/

[davepc]

1. good luck with that one.

[elehhhhna]

2. oh hell yeah. they truly want to import our insurance system. totally.

[RKP5637]

5. Spread the grief around with health care, contaminate Canada too, I guess. n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Little Stevie Wonderbread wants to do that, doesn't he?

And the longer his neocon party remains in charge up there the more likely it is to happen. Though even Conservative Canadians I've talked to would not trade their health care system for our clusterfuck.

But then corporatists and neocons could care less what the majority of the people think. As is obvious from our own attempt to get health care reform on the southern side of the border.

[Bitwit1234]

4. Oh gee now she wants to try to tell Canada what to do.

Someone should follow her around an throw all the s**t back at her she spews. But then they wouldn't be allowed to tell it, so I suppose it is a lost cause.

[RKP5637]

6. She exceeds the definition of dysfunctional. Takes it to a whole new level. n/t

[elocs]

7. Yeah, I read about that this morning:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7085907

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Go home, you stupid $%#@*

Your 15 minutes are up.

[RKP5637]

9. Yeah, she's the noise machine that keeps on giving... and too stupid to know

McCain, etc. turned the lights out on her...