Well that was a giant FUCK YOU to people who deny healthcare to their citizens

[LynneSin]

And it was beautifully done - magical!

[valerief]

1. Well said! nt

[spanone]

2. yes it was

[DevonRex]

3. I hope they had Mitt glued to a seat to make

him watch. And wouldn't let him stick his fingers in his ears.

[tk2kewl]

8. they really should have given us a glimpse of the MittWitt's expression

[Richard D]

20. I wonder if he'll make a statement about it

One can hope.

[peacebird]

4. Very impressed with the London Olympic kickoff!

[tk2kewl]

5. Excellent indeed!

It was also most certainly a STFU to our wingers who try to claim the UK NHS doesn't serve their citizen well.

[elehhhhna]

6. what did I miss?!!!

[riverwalker]

9. huge beautiful tribute to NHS

National Health Service

[Overseas]

27. Yaaay! Glad to hear it!

[UTUSN]

58. Kicking here for visibility of the explanation, thanks!1 n/t

[elleng]

13. Me too.

Guess they'll rerun???

[SunsetDreams]

7. I must have missed something

What happened?

[LynneSin]

12. Opening ceremony in London

They did a beautiful dance number celebrating their National Health Service

[SunsetDreams]

16. awesome!

I wish I would have seen it. If you find video, please let me know.

[marble falls]

73. http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_399758&feature=iv&src_vid=O9GbjPn7_Jg&v=F1Sqmh

I think this is the unpixelated version.

[Overseas]

28. Wonderful! So glad they did that!

[annabanana]

10. If WE had a real health care system, I bet WE'D celebrate it too!

There would be songs written and dances choreographed!

[elleng]

15. Exactly. We have no 'system,'

we have a mess, and its admirable that President Obama went through what he did to get us what he could.

[xtraxritical]

68. We have the same health care system as they have in Afghanistan.

If you can pay extortion, you can get some care.

[xchrom]

11. & a big Fuck You to the Tories trying to dismantle it. Nt

[flamingdem]

19. Does Labor run the Olympics!

How did they slip that one by a Cameron government I wonder

[malaise]

40. The cultural folks rule and they have too much pride to tolerate political interference

Further, the Brits don't insult academics who present historical truths.

It was absolutely fabulous - I loved it from start to finish and was particularly impressed with the GOSH/NHS segment.

[LeftishBrit]

42. Nope. But it's not only Labourites or political people who value the NHS

Fortunately, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley does not run the Olympics, and he is really the one who wants to sell off the NHS.

[oldironside]

61. Lansley should have jumped...

with the Queen and James Bond. But with a concrete overcoat rather than a parachute.

[onehandle]

14. We're decades behind GB. How embarrassing. nt

[elleng]

17. And much of the world.

[barbtries]

18. what was?

thanks

[Ruby the Liberal]

24. Opening ceremonies did a tribute to NHS

and their work with children. "NHS" was lit up in massive letters in the center of the stadium. It was a thing of beauty - the kids looked like they were having an absolute BLAST being part of the show.

And politically, a ginormous FU to those seeking to keep or change to privatized healthcare.

[barbtries]

37. thanks

the first time i've missed having tv in 5 years. i hope i'll be able to catch it online. no live streaming unless you are a subscriber to a pay tv service that offers nbc or msnbc.

[Ruby the Liberal]

45. There is a pic in LBN now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014179047

[LeftishBrit]

43. That was great!

Some of those people were from Great Ormond Street Hospital, which is fairly local to the Olympics, and which essentially saved my life as a kid so you may have heard my cheering all the way in America!

[Hotler]

21. HOW DARE THEY! Celebrate and flaunt their ...

National Health Service in our faces on the world stage. Don't they know health care is a privilege not a right. If only we had a republican president right now so he could send over a drone attack and stop that show right now. Why and the hell didn't our owners of the media pull the plug during that god awful show of entitlements.
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[eyeofnewt]

56. Hilarious

Great post - send in the drones!

[cbrer]

22. Can I get a big AMEN!!

The health care debacle in this country is an excellent example of the greed of our corporate masters, and the ignorance of the right's voting base.

Obvious huge financial savings aside. We can afford to take care of our people.

[The Wizard]

77. Unfortunately

the insurance lobby has enough of Congress on the payroll to ensure we are Third World in regard to health care. Rmoney isn't the only politician with secret off shore accounts.

[cbrer]

79. Too true Wiz

And along that road to (un) fortune, I fear the system will have to collapse before the will to change it will come about. I hope I'm wrong.

[ThatsMyBarack]

23. Seeing that made me insanely jealous!

eom

[RagAss]

25. It was a well timed "Fart in our general direction."

[Gidney N Cloyd]

26. :thumbsup:

[Greybnk48]

29. Ha!! Good one! n/t

[Greybnk48]

47. RagAss! I just quoted you in another thread but

didn't remember who to credit!

[RagAss]

52. Cool ! It was the first thing that popped into my head last night.

[tblue37]

30. I LOVE that real NHS doctors and nurses performed the

dances during that part of the show!

[Riley18]

31. Yes it was

[Rosa Luxemburg]

32. I had to explain what it meant to my relations

They didn't understand any of it. What is NHS they said.

[laundry_queen]

57. I hope you gave them

a nice little lesson on it

[Rosa Luxemburg]

60. Oh yes!

[MrMickeysMom]

33. Damn! I missed this...

I guess I'll see it repeated sometime on DU!

Good on the UK.

I was too busy watching BBC America, by the way. Oh, yes.... Dr. WHO is returning!

[progressivebydesign]

34. details for those of us without tv? thanks. n/t

[sabrina 1]

71. London's Opening Ceremony for the Olympic Games included a huge and wonderful tribute

to their 'socialist' National Health Care System. It was magnificent. The whole world got to see it including Republicans here who insist that HC is not a right, and as Alan Grayson said, if you can't afford it 'then die quickly'.

What a contrast to see a country celebrate the fact that they have a National HC System.

Maybe some day we too will be able to do that.

[rosesaylavee]

35. Amen

Exactly what we said here.

[slipslidingaway]

36. KNR When will the US be allowed to have a real discussion about ...

healthcare for all.

[dipsydoodle]

38. I'm not sure that was our intention here in the UK

but I guess that was the side effect.

[guneydomuz]

39. If we want national HC in the USA

We are first going to have to show some tough love to those that don’t want it.

Step one, repeal the mandates, those that don’t want to play don’t have to play.

Step two, change the laws on mandatory treatment in an ER. If you do not have insurance or don’t have the cash in your pocket for treatment (no checks or credit cards), TS they don’t have to treat you at all.

When Billy Jim Bob Bubba Bagger gets a heart attack from shoving trans fats down his gullet 24/7 and he refused to buy insurance gets turned away at the ER and dies shortly after, the lesson will be learned. After enough of the hardheaded ones die off in a year or two, we will have Universal HC in America.

If we want change we are going to have to institute a policy of tough love on the regressives once they suffer the consequences of their stupidity enough they will be beggaring for change or they will simply die off and their numbers will be reduced which will be reflected in voting.

This can also be sold as a jobs stimulus, cemeteries and funeral homes will do a brisk business with the hardheaded.

[Patiod]

55. Most of us don't roll that way guneydomuz.

Let 'em die, that is.

But thanks for playing, and enjoy your time here at DU.

[guneydomuz]

74. just giving them what they want

what we are doing now is not working so might as well give em what they want.

[RiffRandell]

41. My husband said the same thing while we were watching it!

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That was great!

[mr blur]

44. You really need to see a stream of the BBC coverage - no commercials,

as the Beeb is not a commercial channel.

[barbtries]

62. if only

i tried. "you are not allowed to access this content"

[rocktivity]

46. As an American, I'm looking at it more like a giant "CONGRATULATIONS

ON TAKING A STEP TOWARD JOINING THE WORLD OF CIVILIZED HEALTH CARE POLICY!"


rocktivity

[Comrade_McKenzie]

49. The ACA was only baby steps. We don't deserve a choreographed routine just yet. nt

[Egalitarian Thug]

54. More like a baby faceplant, but at least we fell forward. n/t

[alfredo]

48. Freak Republic was not amused.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2911737/posts

They even included NAZI references.

[LynneSin]

50. Which is so sad because if we had universal healthcare it would make their lives better too!

It would benefit everyone regardless of their political beliefs.

[alfredo]

51. Why would they need universal healthcare when they can call upstairs to mommy for

all their needs?

[happerbolic]

65. Freeper Kook...

... already making ass-backward comments on youtube.
Always hilarious hearing their programmed twisted remarks - 1:25 min.

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[fascisthunter]

53. more cowbell!

[drm604]

59. I don't think it had anything to do with us or anyone else.

This was the British celebrating something they're proud of. Why do we think that everything is about us?

[TahitiNut]

66. GOSH

The segue from Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital (Hospital for Sick Children), the inheritor of the legacy of James Matthew Barrie, was so natural as to be unavoidable. At that point, NHS is a prominent HISTORICAL development that is essential to the entire theme of the Opening Ceremony.

No staged, abridged, infotainment treatment of the peacetime aspects of British history could possibly avoid Barrie and NHS. It'd be criminal.

[sabrina 1]

72. It didn't need to be 'about us'. What it did was to show the contrast between a country

that takes care of its people's health needs and one that doesn't. Doesn't matter whether it was intended or not.

Of course if we had our own National Health Care System we would simply have enjoyed the show. Since we don't, it simply highlighted the difference.

[bulloney]

63. If the Olympics were hosted in the US, we'd be flaunting our military instead of any social programs

There would have been a hundred bazillion (give or take) fighter jets streaking across the sky during the opening ceremony, showing our military might and proving to the rest of the world that we're number one! At or near the bottom in most quality-of-life statistics, but we're number one!

USA! USA! USA!

[RockyRaccoon]

70. Yep.

[Control-Z]

75. Actually they did have fighter jets

streaking across the sky - just the way we do it. But with some really pretty colored smoke trails from a few of them. but I know what you're saying. I loved that they celebrated their National Health Care services.

[nadinbrzezinski]

64. Nah, it was a giant FU

to the Cameron Administration and the rest of the douches in the Tory party.

It was not about the US... as much as even Barrons feels the slight.

[Boxcar Willie]

67. Maybe in your mind

it was simply a tribute to NHS, and I can assure you that not everything is about USA, and an average English man or women doesn't care (or know) about american healthcare system.

[glinda]

69. Yes, it was. Thank goodness. Much appreciated UK!

[99Forever]

76. And meanwhile...

... back here in "the Greatest Nation on Earth," single payer advocates not only don't get a seat at the table, they get arrested for trying.

I'm so fucking proud to be a American!


Yee haw, let's invade somewhere.

[Dragonfli]

78. Why did no one straighten them out and explain our great NEW system? The best ever?

It is according to most everyone here a great big deal, we should get them to change to the Heritage Foundation Vision as we have, Obama said it is awesome (even Rmoney followed that vision on a state level).

Time to lead the world as we have been lead by our great Democratic and Republican leaders!!!!