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.

  • JokeDeity
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    66 months ago

    Trumpler talks like the average never-left-the-county redneck and not like someone who’s been all over the world.

  • @vastard@lemmynsfw.com
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    476 months ago

    You keep your $1,300 insulin. I like my access to vaccines and $0 hospital stays.

    “Mr. Trump, fuck off” will be the universal response of the western world before March.

  • Phoenixz
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    76 months ago

    Yeah and the clouds would become cotton candy and all rivers would turn into the most beautiful wine, and everybody would be beautiful and high 100% of the time

    Uh huh

  • Phoenixz
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    176 months ago

    California is already wading their feet in ceding, they should join Canada. If not as a provence then as a federation or something

    • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I’ve seen a couple references to this. How serious is the discussion down there?

      Size-wise, California would basically be a second Canada if it was independent. For that reason, I doubt we would jump at it (although I’d support it). There’s the whole 1860’s precedent that you aren’t allowed leaving, though.

      I wonder if they could convince Oregon and Washington to go with them. We could have a friendly American border again.

  • Riskable
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    416 months ago

    When he says, “They’d have much better health coverage” he’s talking about the rich people. Not normal people!

    He doesn’t consider normal people, people.

    • @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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      The rich people won’t have any better coverage, either. I know someone who had his daughter flown to the Mayo Clinic for mono. Yes, her case was very bad, yes, they were Canadian, no, that’s not an option that is available to the majority of us, and no, being part of America won’t appreciably improve their options more than that.

  • Miles O'Brien
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    586 months ago

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

  • Swordgeek
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    286 months ago

    The media needs to stop reporting ‘neutrally’ on this bullshit, and call it out as expansionist lies.

    • Maple Engineer
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      106 months ago

      The owners of the media support Trump. When this shit is all over the oligarchs need to be in jail and their wealth given back to the people.

      • JokeDeity
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        56 months ago

        We all have to collectively stop thinking this way. The club is complete, and they aren’t taking new members. No one’s going to put the oligarchs in prison, because the only ones with the power to, are in the club or believe they can someday be in the club. Just like you are saying about the media; it’s all bought and owned, the entire country is. THE ONLY WAY any of this ends is through violence, and we will either wake up to this fact or perish.

        Luigi Mangione might be the only sane American right now.

    • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Eh. At that point you’re reading someone’s polemic. I find myself basically filtering out the opinion and adjectives again when I read those kinds of things, to get back just the facts.

      I wouldn’t call it better in any way, but if you’re as rich as Trump I guess it might be. The article concludes with the average US health payment prominently in it’s own paragraph.

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    He’s preying on some real issues with our system, such as the chronic lack of primary preventative care for the majority of the population in places like Montreal. When it takes months to see a doctor who rushes you, the private options prevalent in the US start sounding attractive.

    So let’s make sure this fool has no leg to stand on by properly funding our public healthcare system, treating our healthcare workers right, and by reducing the barriers to the recognition of foreign healthcare workers’ credentials.

    • @neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Isn’t private healthcare still an option? Not that it should be the case, but I’d much rather pay a thousand a month (which is cheap) for my family to have prompt access to primary care and virtually nothing (?) for hospital trips, specialist etc.

      I’m not sure how it works in places with UHC, and my job pays 100% of my insurance now, but a few years ago I was paying $1200 a month where my employer split the cost and still had to pay $300 for every doctor visit for me and about $50 for my son. Anytime any of us were in the hospital we had to ask at every step how much something would cost because we’ve ended up with a few hospital bills totaling up to crippling debt that we’ll never get out of.

      Even with my insurance costing me nothing now I still pay ~$200 for every doctor visit because we never hit out deductible of ~$6000 which keeps getting raised every few months. We definitely could hit that deductable but we’d still end up owing money for every little thing. I avoid going to the doctors because we can’t afford it. We have to save for any tests/procedures at this point, I’ve been putting off an echo and stress test that I’m supposed to get every 6 months for about a year and a half, my heart medication just doubled in price, an ultrasound for my pregnant wife cost us $800 last month and for some reason it didn’t apply towards our deductible.

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        Paying 1k$ a month for doctors is completely ridiculous in Canada. I’m comfortable right now but that would completely break my budget.

        It is an option I guess for the rich rich, but for the vast majority that’s just not a thing that we’d consider “reasonable”, much less “cheap”.

        Employer health insurance covers dental, drugs, eyes though. So people that don’t have it struggle and that’s not nothing. Which is why the government just passed some limited coverage but it’s not universal as it should be.

        So you see: completely different mindset.

        • @Someone@lemmy.ca
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          Yeah, in BC when we used to have premiums it was only $75/mo and if I remember correctly it scaled up from $0 if you made below about $10000 to the full $75 around $30000.

    • @WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world
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      That just sounds exactly like the US system though but you have to pay for it. My girlfriend has been dealing with medical stuff lately and was being bounced around between places with a month or more waiting time between each one. And whenever something came up that she would want to ask her primary care provider about it would be a few months for an appointment. The US system as far as I can tell doesn’t really have much better wait times yet people still act like it’s better here when my experience is it very much isn’t.