Or more.
The American healthcare system restricts choice of career somewhat, college tuition fees reduces education opportunity, and Americans seem to have much less leisure time, parental leave etc. than most other developed nations. In total I’d argue that the citizens of nations with UHC, tuition-free college, mandated vacations and parental leave etc enjoy more personal freedom.
A lot of the land of the free stuff, along with the US is the greatest nation, is just hype we were taught as a kid to repeat as adults, many other countries enjoy freedoms like us and many more freedoms. We have certain freedoms that others don’t and they have freedoms we don’t. All in all, it’s a democratic type of nation where people do have a direct say, but also it has it’s ruling class and also it’s corruption. As such it’s better then a dictatorship for the average person but not a shining star of freedom we like to pretend it is.
The first freedom is freedom from fear of violence. Without that, all the others are a fantasy. As such, only white males have real freedom in the US.
So odd, that self-declared Libertarians are almost 70% male, and almost entirely white. Go figure, huh?
Our neighbor just went to hospital, diagnosed with perforated ulcer. :eek: I think this is an occasion for serious surgery. The man has no health insurance.
I understand that he will be required to pay a total of 92¢ (at the current exchange rate); this will include the surgery and follow-on care. Yes, that ‘¢’ is ‘cents’ with a ‘C.’ (Paid in full; no bill collector will come after him.) The government surgeon may lack the high training of a U.S. surgeon. But having a low-quality surgeon is better than affording no surgeon at all.
92¢ isn’t “free.” But it’s cheaper than the U.S.A.! 
What nation?
I live in Thailand.
Given the proclivities of the OP, here are my criteria for being free and the answers.
Netherlands has the world’s best rating for gender equality. Most free from male chauvinist bullshit.
Djibouti has the world’s lowest sex ratio of male:female. Most free from men in general.
I lived on a hill above a northern California river that experienced two “hundred-year floods” in three months. Federal flood insurance was not extended to those caught in the second flood who hadn’t raised their houses after the first. Oops. One downhill neighbor decided “Fuck those damn guv’mint restrictions!” He said he would take his payout from the first flood and move to freedom, to Belize, where he could “smoke cigars, kick his dog, and beat his woman without government interference.” Such freedom!
I don’t know how it worked out for him. Newcomers bought his old place, raised it, and rode high above the next flood. I guess they didn’t need wife- and dog-abuse freedom.
does the Chinese man giving haircuts under the bridge properly sanitize his equipment in between customers?
Of course not.
All he has to do is give kickbacks to some govt official to ignore that he is doing, which of course in a heavily regulated dictatorship is totally illegal.
It’s not a example of “freedom”- it’s a example of corruption.
No. But customers can go to a shop that does. That choice is called “freedom”.
Assuming there is a shop that does. But that potential lack of choice is called “freedom”.
If there is a market niche for such a shop, not allowing one is a denial of economic freedom.