When it comes to reforming health care in the United States, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey says the "best solution" is for Americans to eat better and change their lifestyle.
In the US context, "freedom" traditionally can only ever include negative freedoms, freedoms ensured by the absence of some active authoritarian force. Of course this is a framework in which the tyranny of the capitalist over the worker isn't tyranny but the exercise of freedom from any checks on that tyranny. Positive freedoms, encapsulated by FDR's "freedom from want", only emerged much later in the US political lexicon: freedom from poverty, hunger, illness, illiteracy, etc. don't count because in the classical liberal/right-"libertarian" framework they require government coercion of capitalists to pay higher taxes, higher wages, etc., i.e. they require an implicit violation of the capitalist's negative freedoms.
In the US context, "freedom" traditionally can only ever include negative freedoms, freedoms ensured by the absence of some active authoritarian force. Of course this is a framework in which the tyranny of the capitalist over the worker isn't tyranny but the exercise of freedom from any checks on that tyranny. Positive freedoms, encapsulated by FDR's "freedom from want", only emerged much later in the US political lexicon: freedom from poverty, hunger, illness, illiteracy, etc. don't count because in the classical liberal/right-"libertarian" framework they require government coercion of capitalists to pay higher taxes, higher wages, etc., i.e. they require an implicit violation of the capitalist's negative freedoms.