India, Dec. 28 -- Billionaire Elon Musk slammed the Canadian healthcare system on Friday while reacting to the death of an Indian-origin man who died of alleged medical negligence while waiting for over eight hours for treatment at a hospital in Canada.

"When the government does medical care, it is about as good as the DMV," Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter) as he sought to compare healthcare systems run by government to Department of Motor Vehicles of the United States, which reportedly received criticism over being inefficient.

Musk made the remark while quoting a post that read the wife of the man "was told she was being rude after her husband died while waiting to be seen in the ER for over 8 hours with chest pain."

The tragic inc...