Some of the countries that you mentioned at the end of your (well-thought) post are in Scandinavia, with a socialist system that protects them from unemployment and unemployability due to illnesses. Everybody should have food and free medical care. That's a minimum in any evolved society. There days, the republicans at trying to gather a majority in the House of Congress (but the Senate - the other part of Congress - will likely block it) to remove the protection that Obamacare gives to people with pre-existing conditions/illnesses; under the new Trump plan, people with pre-existing conditions can't get coverage, or will have to pay an exorbitant price for it: Isn't it cruel???

To be frank, the attitude of the republicans comes directly from the civil war: They don't want black people to get medical coverage. All the other arguments are just window dressing.