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Originally Posted by SutterBrother
An American contractor asked me with a straight face what I thought about the United States offering to allow Canada to join.
I told him Canadians were unlikely to be willing to trade free Universal Health Care for school shootings.
(I wanna say I read that here somewhere, so thank you)
He replied that there would be a lot of economic advantages, and then asked if it's true Canadians often have lengthy wait times for things like a MRI.
I told him Canada had one of the highest standards of living in the world, and that our healthcare prioritized the most needed cases. I also pointed out that with "cradle to grave" health coverage, Canadians were less likely to allow medical problems to progress (like Cancer) that would eventually kill Americans who either didn't have coverage, or delayed too long out of financial concerns, thereby leaving their families fatherless and destitute and a burden on their communities.
He listened reasonably, and replied that clearly there were varying economic outcomes. I don't mean to paint him with some MAGA brush. He literally just didn't know much about Canada. I suppose that's the case for most Americans.
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Wait times for things are vastly overstated, and MRIs here are just like there - if you can afford it you can go right away. But if you can't, you at least getr one here. There you don't.