re: #3 researchok

There is this to consider: Maybe the closest quality care Palin needed was in Canada.

Wasilla is a long way off from UCLA Med.

Wasilla is a long way from Canada too. And Anchorage has hospitals.
The story is she was living in Skagway, which is close to the Canadian border.

But there’s more…….

Apparently Palin at one point a few years ago described this emergency trip for her brother in a completely different way. They took a ferry to Juneau for his treatment. She was speaking with the ferry boat folks at that time, so who knows who she is pandering (lying) to.

In researching where the heck Skagway is, I also stumbled across an alternate version of her brother’s Medicare story:

Palin drew from her Skagway past to illustrate her point. Her brother burned his foot badly jumping through a fire, and her mother had to take him down to Juneau on the ferry to the hospital. “All these years later, that’s still what people have to rely on here in some instances,” she said.

Calgary Herald