Is the provision of health care the responsibility of the government?  How are liberty and freedom impacted by your answer?  This is where I believe the real conflict in the health care reform debate lies, but the President has said that using health care reform as a proxy for the limited v. expansive government debate is improper at this critical juncture.  I couldn’t disagree more and believe he’s missing or dismissing the reality that a large portion of Americans believe that limiting government is necessary to retain our freedom and liberty and, in this case, to actually improving health care. A couple of generalizations to get us started and probably get me in trouble with a few people: Liberals and democrats typically believe that one of the primary purposes of a government is to provide a minimum standard of living, a floor, which no one would live below.  If the government needs to spend…