No it wasnt.
Nonody here cares about Obamacare, and most of the UK public hasnt heard of it. The reason the NHS was in the ceremony is because Danny Boyle is a socialist, and wanted to celebrate it.
How arrogant to think that a British opening ceremony for a British olympics for a world audience was aimed at America.
Get over yourself.
I don’t know. This whole ‘lionising of the NHS’ thing was kicked off because of that twitter campaign #ilovethenhs launched by that Irish guy who wrote ‘Father Ted’ when that US politician attacked the NHS and said (lol) that Stephen Hawking would be dead ‘if he was British’...