American Healthcare’s Coming to Britain to Make a Killing. Brits Don’t Know What’s About to Hit Them.

The Age of Self-Inflicted Catastrophe’s Latest, Greatest Example

umair haque
Eudaimonia and Co
Published in
8 min readNov 28, 2019

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Why — why on earth — would anyone want American style healthcare? You might be wondering why I even ask. After all, American healthcare is one of the modern world’s greatest and most epic failures.

It’s such a failure, in fact, that something eerie and weird is happening, unheard of not just in rich countries, but even in poor ones: life expectancy is literally falling…by a year…every year. And it’s not just a failure — it’s a nightmare, that leaves people terrorized, broken, hopeless, and bankrupt. Your money, or your life. And if you don’t have money — you just…die. Americans literally beg each other online for money to pay medical bills by the millionsthey cross the border into Canada to buy medicine like insulin…which, by the way, can be a “federal crime”…they have maternal mortality higher than Russia.

Capitalist healthcare. LOL. It should be known the world over by now that it’s one of history’s great oxymorons.

Not so long ago, Britain had the world’s best healthcare system. Now, though, the surreal, gruesome nightmare of American style healthcare is about to arrive on British shores. What the? Why the hell would anyone want American style healthcare? The story, it turns out, is a sad and weird and gruesome parable of now. The age of proudly self-inflicted catastrophe that we live in. How our societies are drowning by a tidal wave of history’s great vainglorious follies, like nationalism, extremism, fascism — even if it literally kills them.

American style healthcare is on its way to Britain thanks to Brexit. Part of the pack of bizarre lies Brexiters sold to the Brits is that they’ll be better off striking “individual trade deals” with “the world” rather than just remaining part of the EU. Now, a wise person might have asked: why would you want to replace French wine and German cars and Italian food with…Chinese ones? Or…even more astonishingly…British healthcare…with American? The answer is: you wouldn’t. Unless, for some reason, you’d lost your senses, and entered into a mass collective delusion. Which is precisely what has happened to…

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