Freedom, Liberty, And Rights: Three Cautionary Tales

Freedom, Liberty, And Rights: Three Cautionary Tales

Aryeh Neier's Essay "Freedom, Liberty, And Rights: Three Cautionary Tales" talks about the definition of those three words. What are the Freedom, Liberty and Rights mean in our mind.
"We enjoy liberty because we can secure protection of these rights when they are threatened" (50)
I use this essay as my seconary essay. I have some thoughts about the rights and health care.
When I was in China, some countries said China is the country which has no human rights. I totally don't agree it. I think we are same as other countries.
But when I started my study in United States. I found the words of "right" is for America. The political is different with China. In this essay, I can see the definition of "right" in USA is people, people make the right. But in China, is goverment. People must follow the goverment's decision. I saw the percentage for suporting Obama is slipping down now. Because he made the "health care as everyone's right". I thought the "health care" is a super good system. It's helped the people who don't have money, let them have a ease life. Don't be worried about if we have a bad disease. But after I do some research, I found the reason why people against it. " If you already have health insurance, the only change you'll see under my plan is lower premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of plan that members of Congress get for themselves. " People thought, in order to help other people, the taxes will increase for them and the quality of treatment lever will fall down. And the most angry thing for people is that: they think Obama is more like a socialist now. He made a goverment and let people listen to it instead of the goverment listen to people.