useful checklist

a quick 'reality check' could save considerable space in this, and other, threads

rumour no 72 - the Chief of Police in Wasilla (not Palin) did apparently have a policy of asking a victim's health insurance to pay for the rape kit as part of the ER visit.
This, it turns out, is policy in a number of states, including Missouri and North Carolina.
Second, the way this became an issue was after the then-governor of Alaska signed a bill forbidding it; this law was signed before Palin was Governor and no one tried to reverse it while she was Governor. Third, what the CoP in Wasilla wanted to do was charge the perpetrator as part of restitution.

so far the list reaches 84!