Link: The Spectator, Canada Sarah Palin has been booked for an April speaking engagement at a fundraiser for two Hamilton, Ontario, hospitals that, Think Progress reminds us, are part of Canada's abortion-providing, single-payer health care system and offer the type of end-of-life counseling that Palin has attributed to "death panels." Reaction to news of what would be Palin's first speaking engagement in Canada was swift this morning from readers of the Hamilton paper's Web site. Its online poll asking whether readers would pay to see Palin had more than 1,000 hits and was running about 90-10 against her; read comments here. The gig was booked through Palin's reps at the Washington Speakers Bureau; St. Peter's Hospital for the elderly and the associated Juravinski Cancer Center hope to sell 1,000 tickets at $200 each to cover Palin's $200,000 fee and raise more from selling photos with her. (Most Canadian hospitals are government-funded but sometimes use fundraising for special projects and new construction.) Last month, Palin told a Canadian entertainer that Canadians should "reform" their health care system to let private enterprise profit from it.

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