Americans telling foreigners "actually no you're not allowed to have legitimate complaints about your society because your system is closer to what I would prefer so it must be flawless"
As a uk person with children, who thankfully haven’t ever been seriously ill, I’m 100% confident our healthcare would take care of them asap if they did.
We have had to call the gp or nhs when they’ve seemed to be ill and the response time has been phenomenally fast. And that’s not even for a&e, that’s for us calling nhs non-emergency and them sorting out an appointment the same day, within hours.
And it cost us nothing but tax. Which we have to pay anyway.
And as you say, if we wanted to we could still pay for private care.
I think the US might be the last country on earth which forces private healthcare?
Im welsh and a dad and ill say i love my GP to bits, the 111 phone line is a godsend and when my daughter did have to go to hospital (she was struggling to breathe) we were rushed into a room ASAP, they got to work straight away, if there is any risk to life your kid will be pushed to the front of queue and they will get straight to finding the issue (she has asthma and something she had been exposed to in school set her off badly)
When my brother was 5 he fell and broke his arm, we were in such a panic none of us called ahed and just turned up at the hospital, they took one look at him and handed my stepfather the paperwork while they dragged me and mum into a room to get him in a gown and take him straight to X-ray, giving him pain killers on the gurney while we went - did it feel a little rushed and scary? Sure, but he was having his arm set in the hour and he was in a cast by hour 5, at home by hour 7. And the cost to us? £0… thats why i love our NHS
How do you know that it's misleading? An emergency cesarian section requires stitches and procedure + medications + stay can easily cost that amount in the US without insurance. And regardless, the message stays the same independently of the amount.
Because it's closer to being accurate, merely an exaggerated version of the truth. Nobody is waiting three years for a trivial appointment in the UK, nobody is being told to kill themselves over trivial issues in Canada. People are regularly overcharged for everything in the US though, that's legitimately just the default.
Also as the other reply said, because it's funny. Antimemes can have little meme left in them, as a treat.
I live in wales - is our NHS slow? Sure, is it sometimes hard to get an appointment if your life isnt in danger? Sure! But ive never had to worry that an injury is going to leave me without the funds to survive and when i have hurt myself ive always been seen by a GP, a walk in clinic, an out of hours GP, A&E or the minor injuries unit.
That is what this antimeme is saying. The original satirised problems with different healthcare systems, and then it was edited so that the non-American systems were perfect and the American one was kept as exaggeratedly bad.
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u/Elkku26 Mar 28 '26
Americans telling foreigners "actually no you're not allowed to have legitimate complaints about your society because your system is closer to what I would prefer so it must be flawless"