“Fascists explicitly promoted their ideology as a “Third Position” between capitalism and communism.[130] Italian Fascism involved corporatism, a political system in which economy is collectively managed by employers, workers and state officials by formal mechanisms at national level.[131] Fascists advocated a new national multi-class economic system that is labeled as either national corporatism, national socialism or national syndicalism.[26] The common aim of all fascist movements was elimination of the autonomy or, in some cases, the existence of large-scale capitalism.[132]

Fascist governments exercised influence over the economy differently than that of communist-led states, in that individual private property was controlled but not nationalized.[133] Nevertheless, like the Soviet Union, fascist states pursued economic policies to strengthen state power and spread ideology, such as consolidating trade unions to be state or party-controlled.[134] ”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#Economic_policies

Forcing everyone to spend the fruits of their labor on a specific item is definitely strengthening government control over 1/6 of the national economy. Now, if there were only the state run National Health Service, that would be socialism. Fascism allows some private enterprise that is severely regulated.

Thus, I call this health care overhaul fascism. It may be Mussolini-lite fascism, (and is in no way Hitlerian fascism) but it is fascism.

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