American Dream

INSURANCE (desk label), COMIC SPONSORED BY MARTIN LINZMAYER, THANKS FOR LIKING AND SHARING

This is a 4-panel satirical comic meme criticizing the accessibility issues of the United States healthcare system. In the first panel, a light blue character named Sven approaches an insurance desk and says he needs healthcare; the insurance worker laughs and mockingly asks "LMAO! YOU SERIOUS?". In the second panel, the insurance worker announces Sven's request to a colleague, and both laugh hysterically at the idea of someone expecting to get healthcare. In the third panel, that same night, Sven wakes up screaming in bed, startling his partner who asks what is wrong. In the fourth panel, a distressed Sven replies "I THINK I HAD AN AMERICAN DREAM...". The joke is a dark twist on the concept of the American Dream: what is supposed to be the ideal of American prosperity and security becomes a nightmare, reflecting how inaccessible and unaffordable healthcare is for many ordinary people in the US.

This is an original comic created by popular webcomic artist Arlo Lovenstein, credited with the watermark @arlovenstein on the image. It was circulated as a meme on Reddit under the title "American Dream", and is a well-known piece of social commentary about the broken US healthcare system.