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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    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.

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      13 hours ago

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

      How wonderful for them…

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      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.

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