Sam Stein (Huffington Post) is a far-left radical liberal who practices sloppy tabloid journalism. And here is the proof.

Stein wrote an article titled ‘Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care‘. In it, Stein asserts the following as fact,

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care — admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada’s single-payer system.
… she and her family once found it more alluring than, at the very least, the coverage available in rural Alaska. Up to the age of six, Palin lived in a remote town near the closest Canadian city, Whitehorse.

The first misstatement of fact is that Canada wasn’t under a single payer system when Palin was six years old. The Canada Health Act wasn’t passed until 1984. Prior to that, Canadian Medicare only covered 50% of medical costs which wasn’t passed into law until 1966.

Stein hasn’t the courage to explain why the Palin family crossed over into Canada. The Palin family lived in the rural southeast Alaska town of Skagway. Their town had [Continue...]