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.
Meanwhile, in the US, every ER and urgent care visit that wasn’t at 3 AM was an all-day affair, and I’ve also had four-month waits to see specialists, all while paying out the nose.
Yes I think both situations are often not ideal. At least in US you have the option, if you have the money, to be able to go to an “out of network” facility that can see you much sooner and probably get a much better standard of care.
Probably doesn’t outweigh the cons for everyone else though.
