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.
In the US you’d have a 4 to 6 hour wait, $3000 to hospital for using the ER, $2000 for the doctor, and if there were scans and such a $$$$$ for using them! Oh also they will take months to bill you but also send it to debt collectors if you don’t pay it for a month so then all of your personal data is sold and you get harassed to pay your debt!
Here’s a fun one my wife got:
She picked an in network doctor for her treatment so insurance would cover it. She got a large bill anyway because the office that the doctor worked in was out of network.
It’s literally impossible to get insurance coverage. You can pick the doctor or building (I’ve read anesthesiologists can be separate too.) But you are going to pay a bill that insurance won’t cover.
Yet another thing that Canadians never have to concern ourselves with.
Pretty sure they’ve had a law against that for a few years now. I’m also fairly sure it’s a federal law.
Did the law act retroactively?
Doubtful. IDK for sure. Can’t do anything about old paid bills, but it’s useful to know for the future.
It’s the No Surprises Act if you want to look up info about it.
This may come as a surprise to you, but people have been having problems with the healthcare system for several decades, not just the last few years.
I have no idea what time his issue took place in. And what good does it do to talk about how things used to be rather than how they are now?
… if you’re lucky.