I will be blunt. I have Canadian relatives and have lived there before. The US should not want Canadians as citizens. Most are too brainwashed to only think "anything but american". Making some provences into states would only serve to create a democrat majority. Some of the prairie provences are more freedom minded but most of the east and far west is too tied into handouts from Ottawa. Making them US citizens will only feed the beast.
Canadian healthcare is amazing propaganda. I have a grandmother who was refused hip surgery because she was "too old". She lived in a wheelchair for another ten years. An uncle routinely crossed over to Buffalo NY for medical care for his type 1 diabetes that the system wouldnt help with. A cousin had to wait six months to fix a broken tooth. All that you get when you give the government control over your health care, is rich people getting whatever they need and the average dope getting mediocre care.
@ElwoodBlues i imply nothing, i relate my famillial experiences with both systems. I have no love for US insurance companies just as i have no trust in a bureaucracy controlling my healthcare. Its bad enough when an insurance drone overrides doctor choices, but that doesnt make it better when a government drone does the same.
My complaint about the statistics is that it shows a pretty graph that may have some value but i know enough of how standards work to understand that not everything is quantified the same way all over the world. I also know that life expectancy isnt simply based on which healthcare system is used.
The Native population of Canada gets the same healthcare system yet has a lower life expectancy than the average in the US. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2019012/article/00001-eng.htm
There are way more factors for life expectancy than if my doctor gets paid privately or gets a govt check.
@Arnoldjrmmer wow, i get a broken tooth, i'm in the next morning. I needed Shoulder surgery, waited 3 months. I have had a cataract removed. It was about a 2 month wait. My mom had Diabetes, she never had an issue getting meds.
Let's start with health care. Canadians enjoy about three more years of life expectancy than US citizens, and they achieve this at roughly HALF the cost!!
Those health care differences have economic consequences! Why would a Canadian want to share our lower life expectancy and our high rate of medical related bankruptcies???
Medical bills are reported to be the number-one cause of U.S. bankruptcies. One study has claimed that 62.1% of bankruptcies were caused by medical issues. Another claims that over two million people are adversely affected by their medical expenses.
@DanielsASJ Of course its fake. It disagrees with REAL TRUTH.......like the truth Q told you about Lizard People and porn studios in the basement of pizza parlors that had no basements. You all have lived on total lies since ur cult leader first filled you with BS every other word he's ever said. Now 12 years later you don't remember what truth is.,
Could have happened in some way...but not when 50% of the USA population thinks we can be forced into it. No one likes to be given an ultimatiium. It would have to be approached with respect - not with the breaking of free trade agreement and thus a leader/country that cannot be trusted. The Canadian people would never allow our government to break an agreement made with another nation - we just don't think like Americans.
No, it really wouldn't. Canada has her own history and culture. It values autonomy like any other nation. It isn't all about economics. How about the USA becomes part of Canada? No...?
The major negative is Trump would be their president. What Trump said could actually be construed as a declaration of war against Canada, as one Canadian politician has already suggested.
@Richard65 Another aspect of making Canada one state is the dilution of representatives in Congress. Canada would end up with only two senators for their 41 million people. A fair addition of Canada would include at least SIX new states of approx 7 million people each. And every new state would have 2 new senators and 9 or 10 new members in the House.
And republicans would NEVER accept this, because there's only one province in Canada that would ever vote republican.
Why should a country that’s doing well, join a country where everyone’s divided and fighting each other, and a convicted criminal is in charge ? Why would they ever want to be part of that ? 😳
@DanielsASJ Canadian government health care costs half as much and yields 3 more years of life expectancy. Any integration would involve everyone signing up for Canadian health care, and all US health insurance companies (a $3 trillion business sector) going bankrupt!
Canadians live longer than people in the United States. Specifically, women in Canada live an average of 83 years, compared to 80 in the U.S.; men live more than 78 years on average compared to 75 in the United States.Dec 31, 2013 -- theglobeandmail.com
@YoMomma USA and Canada would become thd largest country in size with considerable population. There needs to be a mass deportation programme but it will benefit Canadians as they will get the New US passport. USA will be able to extract it's minerals and utilize it for the betterment of its population.
It will make US in close proximity with Greenland - The Resources.
It will make those resources not get to the hands of nasty nations.
If US and Canada are one, hardly any country would have enough courage to even challenge either USA or Canada.
Overall, this would be the best deal of the 21st century.
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure
