Palin and Canadian Health Care

It made the news that Sarah Palin admitted that when she was growing up her family would go to Canada for medical care. Is this relevant to today's health care debate? Not in the least for two important reasons:

1) Palin's family lived in a small Alaskan town and the closest (by a long shot) medical facility was in Canada. Closest does not mean best (or worst).

2) Palin says that this was during her first five years of life. She was born in 1964 and Canada did not become single-payer until 1985. No one seems to have picked up on this but it invalidates any arguments about single-payer.