The American healthcare system is based on the fact that nothing in life is free. Contrary to the believe of many, tax payers do not have unlimited income. Taxes are taken from people*. It is not an endless source.
With all due respect, the American healthcare system is based on the idea that everything should generate a profit for someone. Contrary to popular belief, Europeans actually do understand that their national insurance contributions (or whatever they are called locally) pay for their healthcare system and that this is taken from their income.
Most Europeans are just more agnostic and do not care whether their contribution is called a tax or a fee to a private insurance company. Americans always seem entirely focused on taxes while completely ignoring similar financial burdens as if it somehow mattered where the money is going.
European countries spend less per capita on healthcare while covering more people and getting at least similar, if not better, results and coverage, but of course it's great to have the freedom to not being able to afford healthcare or losing your life savings because you had an accident.
I don't know how this isn't the smart financial decision in recognition that nothing in life is free, but you do you.
There is nothing wrong with being successful, and, a capitalists system allows for more people to become successful by encouraging self employment, which itself is the greatest avenue to middle class.
Where does this idea that there somehow is something wrong with being successful even come from? The only thing on the table is whether being successful should give you unchecked power to do whatever you want and regardless of other societal harms this may cause.
We've all been strongly moving into less, not more, social intervention over the last 40 years and I'm not sure we really have a lot of great results to show for it. Life expectancy is decreasing, income inequality is rising and economic powers seems to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands, dominated by massive multinational companies.
There's nothing wrong with a market economy or private enterprise and there isn't a single 'socialist' country in Europe. The best we can muster is countries that are somewhere on the social democratic spectrum.
Furthermore, when things are given away, they are not appreciated. Humans require lots of things to live: food, housing, plumbing, heat, clothes, healthcare and dental care. The question for Americans is not, do we allow poor people to die, rather, how much government involvement is appropriate and how much of the burden do we put on the tax payer?
But when there's a choice between shareholder value and people dying the consensus does seem to be that individual profit takes precedence over human lives.
Plus, as stated above, in their quest to not put the 'burden' on the taxpayer, they really don't care if the taxpayer pays triple in private fees to get the same or a worse service because god forbid shareholders or big corporations couldn't make a good profit out of basic necessities.
