A significant part of America genuinely thinks like this, somehow.

This is an 8-panel (4 paired rows) meme using characters from the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants: Man Ray and Patrick Star. The sequence follows Man Ray presenting a series of factual points about the US healthcare system to Patrick: confirming Patrick has a health insurance card, noting US residents pay more per capita for healthcare than any other country, pointing out citizens could save roughly $1000 per year under a single-payer system, and concluding the US should adopt universal healthcare like every other developed nation. Patrick agrees with all of these individual facts immediately, before abruptly rejecting the conclusion entirely, shouting that universal healthcare will never work in the US and insulting Man Ray as a communist. The meme satirizes the perceived contradictory ideological stance many people in the US hold regarding healthcare policy, where they accept all supporting facts for universal healthcare but oppose it out of ingrained anti-socialist sentiment.

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THIS IS YOUR INSURANCE CARD, RIGHT?

YUP

AND YOU PAY MORE FOR IT PER PERSON THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY ON EARTH?

LOOKS LIKE IT

AND YOU COULD SAVE ~$1000/YEAR BY SWITCHING TO A SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM?

MAKES SENSE TO ME

SO WE SHOULD HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE IN THE US THEN, LIKE EVERY OTHER DEVELOPED NATION IN THE WORLD.

IT WILL NEVER WORK HERE. FUCK YOU COMMUNIST!

Overview

This is an 8-panel (4 paired rows) meme using characters from the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants: Man Ray and Patrick Star. The sequence follows Man Ray presenting a series of factual points about the US healthcare system to Patrick: confirming Patrick has a health insurance card, noting US residents pay more per capita for healthcare than any other country, pointing out citizens could save roughly $1000 per year under a single-payer system, and concluding the US should adopt universal healthcare like every other developed nation. Patrick agrees with all of these individual facts immediately, before abruptly rejecting the conclusion entirely, shouting that universal healthcare will never work in the US and insulting Man Ray as a communist. The meme satirizes the perceived contradictory ideological stance many people in the US hold regarding healthcare policy, where they accept all supporting facts for universal healthcare but oppose it out of ingrained anti-socialist sentiment.

Origin notes

This meme is a modified version of the widely used 'Patrick Wallet' meme template, which originates from a scene in the animated show SpongeBob SquarePants where Man Ray attempts to return a wallet to an irrationally uncooperative Patrick. This edited version, focused on US healthcare policy, was shared on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, as indicated by the provided RSS source information. The template is commonly used online to illustrate instances of people agreeing with all logical premises of an argument before irrationally rejecting the obvious conclusion.