The GOP’s new brand of freedom: The privilege of being without health insurance

When I think of freedom, I think of it in positive, aspirational terms: our First Amendment freedoms, for example, or FDR's "Four freedoms" or the uplifting songs of freedom sung by oppressed people around the globe.

But right-wing, corporate-funded ideologues have fabricated a new negative notion of "freedoms" derived from individual choice. You're free to be poor, free to be politically powerless or free to be ill and uncared for; it's all a matter of decisions you freely make in life, and our and our larger society has no business interfering with your free will.

This is what passes for a philosophical framework behind many of the policies of today’s Republican congressional leaders....
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/17/the-gops-new-brand-of-freedom-the-privilege-of-being-without-health-insurance/