Can we cut through the crap, please?
Let's start with what we can absolutely agree on...or at least should be...
1. It's doubtful that we'll know who made the decision to put whom on state-funded heathcare.
2. state-funded healthcare is a form of socialism
3. state-funded healthcare is what Palin has argued vehemently and emotionally against
4. the kid is on state-funded healthcare
Are we all still in the car so far? Good.
Look, Sarah doesn't have custody of her grandchild so Bristol or her man made the decision. At best you could say that Sarah could have spoken to her daughter about the decision. If you're on the left, you can say Sarah failed to convince her own daughter. If you're on the right, you can say Sarah let her daughter make her own decision. But that's really about as far as you can get with any certainty.
I do think that if Sarah really held true to her beliefs that she would keep pleading with Bristol to change. Heck, even make a blog post about how you're trying to convince your daughter. Show that the issue touches her personally. Lots of political capital there.
But it's not the smoking gun of hypocrisy the "article" makes it sound like.
Now that we're done with that...let's get to this piece of spewage:
What is hypocritical about opposing a program but benefitting from it?
There's a simple answer to this...it's called "principles". If you really oppose something...and believe something is harmful...you don't say "my choice isn't going to make a difference, I might as well"...you dont take the tax credit, you dont take the socialized medicine, you dont have the abortion...
Either you believe that something is evil...or you don't.