"I don't believe in all this public-funded health care because we gotta pay for it," Ford told WJFK's "The Sports Junkies."
Ford said that in Canada, the country "can't afford" their universal health coverage.
"What you guys are doing down there, I just, I can't get my head around it because it's costing a fortune, and I don't know where you guys are going to find the money, except the taxpayers pockets," he continued.
"And I think people are taxed to death, and I don't mind two-tier healthcare; if you want healthcare, you pay for it. I understand that. And we have general healthcare up here, or OHIP we call it, but, you know, it's gonna cost a fortune for you guys to put in this ObamaCare, and I just don't see how the people are going to be able to afford it, to tell you the truth."
Ford added that he personally liked Obama but that he did not "like his politics."
The embattled Canadian mayor admitted last month that he had purchased and smoked crack cocaine. On Wednesday, police documents said Ford offered $5,000 and a car for a video that reportedly shows the mayor smoking the crack.
During his appearance on the show, Ford denied the police findings.
"No. 1, that's an outright lie," Ford said. "And No. 2, you can talk to my lawyers about it. But I'm here to talk football, guys."
The Toronto mayor said he also differed with Obama on the controversy over the Washington Redskins' team name. He said both the Washington franchise and baseball's Cleveland Indians should keep their names.
"What are we going to call them next, the Cleveland Aboriginals?" he said.
In an interview with The Associated Press earlier this year, Obama said he'd "think about changing" the team name if he owned the franchise.
... because classically, a disgraced mayor would step down. Not even the chief of police expected that he would DARE to admit what he did and then refuse to step down.The city has nothing in place that would force him out of office, unless he misses work for 60 days. Trust me when I say that as soon as the next mayor steps in, you can bet that they will change the law on this. Instead the city council has stripped him of as many powers as they could under the law. For now, even if he were put in prison, Toronto would technically have an absentee convict mayor for that amount of time or until the next election, whichever was shorter.
There is a very big danger however, that unless Ford is actually arrested (read: the cops find something solid they are sure they can stick to him) that he might even have enough support left to actually have a shot at winning the mayoral office again. I personally don't think it will happen, a lot of people would be willing to strategically vote ANYBODY in other than Ford if it seemed like he had a chance again.
The problem is that Toronto amalgamated all of the far flung suburbs, so a lot of conservative, middle class voters still see him as the guy who's fighting for them and their desires, against all of the inner city rich liberals, and they see this entire affair as a sideshow attacking "their guy". And personally, I don't have a problem with the fact of him using drugs, if he were to be responsible about it, which he obviously isn't. A lot of Canadians wouldn't judge somebody just for that, he might actually get MORE votes from certain groups. For me, I think he's an over-ambitious, hypocritical, bullying, bigot of a person, THAT's what matters to me as a voter.
My opinion is that Toronto should NEVER have amalgamated to become what is now the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) because it's resulted in this situation. Voters with extremely different priorities from downtown and the outskirts are literally at complete odds as to what they need from the city, and as a result nobody is ever happy, somebody always has to compromise and it just creates extreme amounts of bad blood between different groups. Then somebody like Ford comes in, starts cancelling and changing city contracts and building plans, totally changing the direction of the city, making changes that benefit only the sorts of people that vote for him at the expense of everybody else, and polarizing camps against each other.
Ford also has the indirect support of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who supported him when he refused to go ahead with a light rail system for Scarborough, instead pushing the subway option (google "Subways, subways, subways") which experts think will be needlessly more expensive, plus the backtracking on the current plans. Harper is currently undergoing a massive corruption scandal. You can bet that it isn't lost on any of these folks that the more front page headlines Ford steals from the Prime Minister's Office, the better.