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.
Tired of this lie, tbh.
The waits are probably, on average, a little longer, sure. The “someone is waiting an absurd amount of time with an obvious visible problem and they’ve died while waiting” is pure privatization propaganda fueled by people going to the hospital for things like prescription refills and being shocked when they’re pushed to the bottom of the list over and over again while people come in with genuine, time sensitive problems.
I have a friend like this, goes to hospital and upset wait time for pulled muscle or rib bruising is ridiculous hours. I say make a doc or clinic appointment, but no, doesn’t want to wait a week for doc or half a day at walk in clinic… 2 weeks later still complaining. Well you could have been seen already. Lol
I had to wait 4 months to see a doctor for my uLMS, and I personally know of several others now with worse conditions that also had to wait months. If you search around online you will also find many more similar occurrences. Same for ER visits taking literally all day long.
In general I don’t think it is a lie, this IS happening.
How much it goes on, or how often it might be a made up occurrence, and how often that needs to happen for you to consider it a “lie”, might be a separate matter.
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.
No, it doesn’t, because even someone relatively well-off like me can’t afford the absolutely astronomical bills that would be incurred by going out-of-network.
Edit: downvotes from people who have never seen a $957,000 statement from a hospital