It was done so in a very stylized manner to feed directly to the people of the US the glories and wonders of Obama Care.
No doubt, pushed on Danny Boyle with the arm twisting of Zero, Moochelle, Valerie Jarrett, or an associated thug or goon.
Just my two cents.
Boyle seems to have been gung-ho on the idea. We can blame him - and whomever picked him - for the NHS cr*p.
Still, I liked the Industrial Revolution sequence.