Land of the free, and land of the great it is no more.
If you truly think that because of national health care, then the USA has not been the land of the free or great since long, long before you were born. Social Security, Medicare, highways, national parks, all that stuff: same deal. Citizens paying for public projects that not everyone uses. Don't like it? Move to Somalia, where the government doesn't control your health care or nutrition.
And I think Turtlekid's problem is he hasn't seen the real world. Yes, it's easy for the gov'mint to seem evil when it looks like all they do is take your money and blow it on things you don't support or care about, but without the government countering the actions of private companies we would be ****ED. Here's the key: the government's goal is not money. They need tons of money, but its not the be-all end-all point. For almost all private companies, that is the only goal: money. And it causes them to act very, very evil. In a pure capitalism or anarchist system, nature's beauty would have been utterly destroyed by now, we would not have safe food or water, and 99% of the population would be uneducated serfs slaving their entire lives away to serve an elite 1% of CEO-type people. It still trends that way somewhat (as we are still capitalists) but the government is extremely useful in preventing this kind of monopolistic domination of every area of life by businesses.
So get a non-government job some time, and you may begin to appreciate the government's actions, even if they weren't mandated by an ancient document (you sure do seem to love those).