What if, the rest of the westernized world imposed an embargo on the US over our lack of health care?

Ahh it's been awhile since I last posted, but I'm here today to start a new series of articles called, "What If?" I kick it off with this question. "What if, the rest of the westernized world imposed an embargo on the US over our lack of health care?" Why would they do this you ask? Well for the sake of argument, let's say it's because the rest of the west sees health care as a fundamental human right, and their reason for the embargo is because they see any nation with 50 million uninsured, and 100 million under-insured, as needing a swift kick in it's ass to get it's act together, and to fix it's problems.

Unpossible you say? Where too economically, and militarily powerful for that to happen you say? Are you sure? While we are the richest nation in the world our GDP is $5 trillion less than the EU, and the EU doesn't including Japan, Canada, or Australia, just to name a few. Additionally we are in the midst of our most economically vulnerable state since the great depression. As for our military it's a little busy right now with two other wars. What are we going to do? Bomb Toronto? Assassinate the Queen of England? Re-nuke Hiroshima, and Nagasaki? Yeah, I think not. What would we do? Well at first I think our government would panic, then blame across the aisle, then blame the rest of the world, then it would pass health care reform for all.

It would be like an intervention. EU is a friend we made when we backed them up in a bar fight, Canada is our sister country from mother England, and we helped Japan kick that nasty imperialism habit. They all really love us, and that's why they want to help us kick our own addiction, predatory capitalism. While they all enjoy capitalism in their own right, we enjoy it a little too much, like Barney Gumble and Duff Beer. It's getting in the way of what's really important to a country like ours, the welfare of it's people. I'm not saying the US needs to give up capitalism, just switch to a non-predatory, alcohol free kind. Of course like any addict we will swear up and down that we don't have a problem. We will curse out and threaten anyone that tries to confront us about our problem and help us. But in the end, after 90 days in rehab, we will come out stronger, more confident, and healthier, and we will thank everyone that helped us get there.

In any case that's just my 2 cents on the question, what if, the rest of the westernized world imposed an embargo on the US over our lack of health care? What do think would happen in this hypothetical situation?

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Keith.J.Lemire