Reddit reviews Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba Are Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care

(Note: I'm an Anarchist too)

>When people are forced, through taxation at the threat of gunpoint or jailtime, to give their property to the State, then people become less likely to care about their fellow man.

I don't agree with this. Take the example of Cuba, I am no expert in Cuba (and nor do I claim that this is a good country in any other aspect other than the inhabitants' goodwill), but there's a really interesting thing about this country

>Now the state was expected to help these people out, and the couple thought that they would get the help they needed.

I think the answer I’d give you here if I were a Democratic Socialist is pretty obvious: There’s no reason why the would not receive that help in a Democratic Socialist country (“…have combined with cuts to welfare state budgets to undermine those efforts.”)

>If people had more money to spend, and gave nothing to the state, then we'd all be able to help everyone out. Abolish the state, and there is plenty of money to go around, and you are more likely to care for your neighbors.

Firstly, money is not the only important thing, you can have less money but more time to take part of voluntary groups, and it’s clear that while one might be lead to think that higher taxes mean that you will spend more time working to compensate the loss, it is not quite so (“More than 80% of males in the US and 60% of female workers spend more than 40 hours a week at work. Compare this with a Scandinavian country such as Norway where about 20% of males and 7% of females work more than 40 hours of week.”).

The lack of money is not a problem, we already have more than enough right now, and it is hard for me to believe the State is the source of the problem, or that a transition towards an AnCap society without some source for those claims.
Furthermore, you are ignoring the main argument the Author gives, that social isolation is a problem and that in Capitalist countries without big welfare states people have less time to help each other (From the article: "More than 80% of males in the US and 60% of female workers spend more than 40 hours a week at work. Compare this with a Scandinavian country such as Norway where about 20% of males and 7% of females work more than 40 hours of week."), if you hope to debunk his arguments that's where you'll have to concentrate.

>When the State is supposed to help people, and doesn't, then people can just blame the State. Which is why I'm more of an anarcho-capitalist/voluntarist.
There’s no reason why the existence of welfare makes voluntary groups impossible, in fact, if people vote for said groups (and therefore agree to pay taxes that fund the welfare) there is little reason to believe they cannot coexist, at least in my opinion.