A New Definition of Freedom?

In his speech to Congress this evening, Mr. Obama called for a requirement that those who can afford health insurance obtain such coverage.

Pardon me, Mr. Obama, but doesn't "freedom" include the right to do, or not do, based on one's own preferences and judgment?

Or were you really saying "You will all pay for my new bureaucracy, one way or another"?

For a rebuttal, I offer a much better speech, by a much better speaker, who loved, rather than loathed, the idea of America and individual freedom:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganatimeforchoosing.htm