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It's immediately known as a US show because the main character has to resort to crime to pay for health care.
Except he actually doesn’t, he has rich friends who will pay for everything for him. He’s too proud to accept free help
It's immediately known as a US show because the main character ~~has to~~ lives in a country where someone who didn't have a fabulously wealthy CEO as a friend as a plot point may resort to crime to pay for health care.
Yeah my point is I don’t think Vince Gilligan was trying to make any kind of political statement with the healthcare costs. It was just a plot vehicle for him to examine the individual resentful and proud psyche of Walter White, beaten down by years of self-perceived humiliation. If healthcare was free in the US then he would have contrived another plot vehicle to do this