People should not die, or suffer in pain because they can't afford health care.

Denying it has nothing to do with "freedom". It has all to do with YOU not wanting to be taxed for someone elses health care.

Health care is a right. It is just another public utility, like public education, roads, and police or fire protection. It is not to be reserved only for those who can afford it. In other words, "witholding services". THAT is truly the ultimate "death panel".

You can extend that same logic to the rest of your complaints. Government exists because the private sector cannot, or will not, provide all the services people need. If health care was affordable, we wouldn't need Obamacare. If jobs were plentiful, we wouldn't need social services or welfare. If people weren't going hungry, we wouldn't need food stamps. If the ocean was waist deep we wouldn't need the Coast Guard.

Underneath all your pious humbug about freedom is the fact that you simply don't want to pay for other people's benefits--people who through no fault of their own can't get them from the private sector.

But when you wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of someone breaking into your house you're going to reach over for that phone and call the STATE, and you will expect it to deliver immediately.