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U.S. President Donald Trump says Canadians would have “much better” health coverage if Canada became the 51st state.

He made the remarks during a briefing in North Carolina, where he toured areas struck by Hurricane Helene on Friday.

“I would love to see Canada be the 51st state,” he said. “The Canadian citizens, if that happened, would get a very big tax cut -- a tremendous tax cut -- because they are very highly taxed.”

“They’d have much better health coverage. I think the people of Canada would like it,” said the president.

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 56 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Funny, because I know plenty of people in Ohio who have gone to Canada specifically for better and more affordable medical treatment.

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

I know people in AZ and southern California who do the same thing but to Mexico

[–] Anykey@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

To be fair, I know people from Ontario who had to travel to Buffalo for diagnostics, because they had to wait for over 9 months in Ontario, and the cost of few thousand dollars was not that great to them.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

and the cost of few thousand dollars was not that great to them.

How wonderful for them....

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

That's basically it, right? Per person it treats, the US system is a lot less efficient. It works "better" by leaving some people outside to die so the rich don't have to worry about waiting or sharing.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

That is Doug Fords doing, he is purposely dismantling the system for his buddies when have private care setup