Why is it considered fascist or socialistic if we want everyone to have health insurance?

Health care - Protection ? The US government was created to protect the country and free commerce. Not to provide all to its citizens. But for its citizens to be able to provide all for them selves. How far we have drifted from the original intent of this country !

Universal healthcare is a socialist policy. It is not a comparison about Republican/Decmocrat parties. It is about Capitalism vs Socialism vs Communism idealogy comparison.

Universal health care means one payer. Therefore no choice, which goes against a Capitalistic idealogy of free markets. Communist health care would be that every one gets treated with what is available to share at that time. So, there is nobody to pay and nobody getting paid, which in all reality means that no one gets anything because there is no incentives.

One of the major problems with health care is the fact that the government has screwed things up by requiring all hospitals to treat everyone regardless of their ability to pay. Then they give Medicaid to everyone regardless if they are legal or illegal in this country. So, you have unpaid work with people receiving benefits from a system that is only taking into account its legal citizens. This thereby causes a huge deficit that the hospitals try to make up by getting more from those who can pay. On top of that, you have many people who see medical malpractice as equivalent to hitting the lottery and trying to take any advantage to get more money. The current system is broken, but maybe the expectations of what medical care should be given and what can be given needs adjustment too.

I think it confuses the issue to focus on insurance. Insurance is a method, not a goal. The goal is necessary medical care and treatment.

If they stopped obsessing over insurance, maybe they could think of other solutions for ensuring that all citizens have access to necessary medical care and treatment. (Assuming you can even get consensus that such a thing is something the government should provide.)

Of course it's a social program. Calling it socialism isn't necessarily a slur, but a caution. Unfortunately, we live in a society of hyperbole, so it's common for discussions of social policy to generate more heat than light.

It's socialistic if everyone has access to affordable health insurance.

It's fascist to require everyone to have health insurance.

Because it redistributes wealth.

Because rich republicans think they deserve to hoard all their inherited money.