Even though Mr. Ryan says he believes that freedom is “the ability to buy what you want to fit what<br />you need,” he doesn’t want the government to do anything to help people experience that freedom.<br />“ ‘Necessitous men are not free men.’ ”<br />Among the rights he laid out were to a job and an education, to earn enough to buy<br />the necessities, to live in a “decent home,” and to medical care and good health.<br />The Affordable Care Act’s extension of health care coverage, coupled with the individual<br />mandate to buy it, has brought the uninsured rate to an all-time low.<br />He said that he was “calling on this Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare” and demanding “reforms<br />that expand choice, increase access, lower costs and, at the same time, provide better health care.”<br />That’s a lot to promise, and Republicans have thus far been unable to get on the same<br />page about how to repeal the Affordable Care Act and what should take its place.<br />But Mr. Ryan is sure they will come up with something<br />because they know, as he said in a recent tweet, “Freedom is the ability to buy what you want to fit what you need.”<br />He went on to argue that Obamacare abridges this freedom by telling you what to buy.
