Do you really think Danny Boyle or the British people care a toss about your healthcare?. Dont flatter yourselves.
How arrogant to think that a British show for a British audience for a British olympics, a show which was watched by 1 billion people all over the world, was aimed at just America.
Well to say the least the British were simply just singing the praises of their healthcare system, which was very obvious. But they know the “drama” that is going on over “across the lake” as the Atlantic Ocean is called with the “debate” over Obamacare.
It would make more sense though that the way the AMERICAN announcers present the show for the AMERICAN audience on the AMERICAN network might try to spin it that way.
On a less political note, I think it is a bit shocking to find that, of the 5 or 6 things that the British think are their most important achievements in all of history, the NHS is one of them. Also that the NHS is so underworked or overstaffed that they could afford to send thousands of their professionals off to get trained to dance in the Olympics.
We are told that there are months-long waiting lists for treatment because of shortages, so it seemed a bit surprising.
I don’t know. It sure seems some Europeans are flabbergasted we even question “guaranteed” care. It seems to make the news.
I really don’t want to step on your toes.
But how many OCs would really pay an homage to some bureaucracy in their government? Even the Chinese didn’t do that.
Even if it wasn’t a dig at Americans - which it very well might not have been - it’s still strange. I can’t see why it would even come up! Seems to me a seed was planted, somehow. But maybe not - maybe it’s just weird.
Oh BTW, scot, if you didn’t notice - the last Canada Winter Olympics ceremonies were aimed at America. Yes, they really were. Lots of huffing and puffing basically squawking that “we’re not the US!”
So, it has happened.