http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=14213

Here are two important questions of public policy in which it looks as though we have to choose between liberty and equality. Some people think tax laws, which clearly limit our freedom to spend our money as we wish, should be designed to equalize incomes, because great inequality in incomes is wrong. Is the egalitarian redistribution of income an illegitimate invasion of economic freedom? A National Health Service, such as the one in Britain, aims to give equal access to health care. Some people think that, to maintain equality, no one should be able to buy better health care privately. But is it justifiable to limit people's freedom to choose the best treatment they can afford? …" (Au)