And what do you mean by "any known version of socialism"? What does a known version of socialism look like, in your opinion? Because to me, it looks like programs to give people money who don't work hard enough to provide for themselves.
Damn those people with debilitating diseases! They just need to drag their lazy asses off the couch and get to work to pay for their hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of medical treatment.
No wait... they should have planned better and not gotten sick in the first place!
This gets into another question though, which is, what is the value of a random person's life? $5? $500? $500,000? $5M? At what point do you say, enough is enough, and give up on throwing money at trying to save a person's life? And I'm talking about any general public fund's money, not an individual's money which they can spend at will on whatever they like. You can't say that a life is priceless, else we'd all be so poor spending money on keeping people alive that we'd live in shacks and eat grub for every meal.
See above, history has proven time and again that charties do not cut it, which is why social services were started in the first place.
It's not about spending money to keep people alive, it's about giving everyone as equal a shot at life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as we can. No one should suffer due solely to being dealt a bad hand. That's why this BS that everyone that uses social services is some lazy ghetto queen bum is so off-the-wall wrong. The purpose of social services is to prop up people that need propping up so that they can hopefully get back on their feet someday and become contributing members of society. They can't do that if we just let them die.
Father, mother, and two kids are living their merry lives. Father gets cancer and has to stop working. Leaving works means getting dropped from his healthcare policy. Father now has to find it own healthcare... but no one will take him because he's got cancer and cancer is expensive. Father is now stuck paying for literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in treatments out of his own pocket. Mother goes to work. What about the kids? The kids have to drop out of highschool at 16 and get jobs to help put food on the table. Their future is shot. They were 4.0 students, bound for good colleges, now they're working at McDonald's. Father dies. Mother is now old and burned out. Kids are in their late 20's with no highschool education and they're forced to keep working to support their mother who had no retirement savings because it all went to her husband's medical bills, rent, and clothes for the kids. Mother dies. Kids are now in their 50's with no retirement savings, no education, and no hope for what's left of their future.
So we've throw an entire generation down the toilet because society didn't want to pick up the tab for father's cancer treatment. The same father that worked a 9-5, paid his taxes and was a contributing member of society. It's called giving back, and it's not voluntary because it's OWED.