Kindly Excuss Me Folks: US Politics Question

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However, Alexander Hamilton believed that Article I, Section 8, (which does use the word 'provide' in connection with welfare, meant that the federal government was responsible to provide anything citizens might need or desire, up to and including food, provisions, housing, and so on. Have you ever heard of that kind of system? Oh yes, we called it 'communism'.
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I realise that this is an old comment in a thread that's been dredged up, but uh, that's not "communism".

Just to pick up a couple of other points as well, Capitalism absolutely is "a political system" the Neoliberal version of it that has been rampant in the US and UK since the end of the 70s is utterly intertwined with political dogma.

To answer why it's any concern of a non American how your healthcare system works, our hard right politicians view our public health services as potential targets for private sector companies to make profits from, to privatise them and put private profit before the function they were established for, and they attempt to use the American system to legitimise their attempts.

In the UK members of disgraced medical insurance companies are involved in making government policy.

Also some of us have friends and loved ones who live there and are directly affected by what happens.

One thing us Europeans tend to forget when looking at the US is that it's a very young country. I don't say this in a dismissive way at all, but rather to say "of course we won't all view things the same way".

I haven't managed to keep up with the details of the current changes to the healthcare system, (it seems even those making the changes aren't particularly clear on them either), but my thoughts are with anyone who is negatively affected by the changes.