Covid-19 killing the American dream for expat entrepreneurs

Expats who risked all to be part of the American dream are now leaving in droves due to perceived inequalities within the healthcare system.

For would-be expats from across the world, the American dream is still achievable given hard work and a positive view on life, but the coronavirus pandemic has killed the dream for many. The main reason for the present-day expat exodus is fear that America’s healthcare system won’t look kindly on those who’re not citizens. The exodus began as states all across the world began to close down their borders, with expats desperate to get back to the home country even when it meant leaving behind all they’d achieved.

Many of those affected had been and still are entitled to universal healthcare at home, and are preferring to leave even if they’ve not yet caught the virus. Now that the USA has become the pandemic’s global epicenter, the lives expats have built over the years mean far less than the chance to get back home and avoid experiencing inequality in the American healthcare system. Even although expats went to great lengths as regards getting jobs as well as the necessary visas to be admitted into the country, they’re now realising they’ll be at the back of the queue as regards medical help.

Speaking to the media, several expats preparing to repatriate explained the US government’s delayed response to the emergency created a higher level of risk than is acceptable, with others who’d lost healthcare insurance along with their jobs now seeing their dreams as a mirage. Freelancers unable to afford medical coverage form part of a huge group of New York-based young professionals who’d made fast decisions to get up and go, booking a flight to anywhere as long it was out of the USA. Tragically, thousands of immigrants who arrived out of necessity now have nowhere to go and are equally terrified to stay, and those heading to Spain or Italy are between a rock and an even harder place.