Liberalism and Anarchy

Fear: one of the best ways to control a population.
In 1993, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested a universal healthcare plan for all American citizens. This policy was overruled due to strong opposition from Republicans who claimed that it would be overly bureaucratic and restrictive to the patient's freedom, and thus gain the people's support : "The Clinton Administration is imposing a top-down, command-and-control system of global budgets and premium caps, a superintending National Health Board and a vast system of government sponsored regional alliances". 
Which led me to think, as I stir my coffee: to what extent is the interference of the government considered as limitation to the citizen's liberty?
Sure, some imposed restrictions might be inevitable at some point, for as the state tries to intervene, it might apply a set of rules in order to make out of individual situations some typical ones that are more manageable by the government. I do not have any on my mind right now, but the people surely will have to give up something in order for that to work - but does that mean it's a threat to democracy and liberalism?
The answer is no. Even in a Liberal system the State still has to help the citizens as much as it can, without invading their personal space and without restricting their freedom. After all, that's the whole difference between liberalism and anarchy. In the extreme case we get to the situation of the Welfare State, as we find in the Nordic countries and some Western European countries, which are as we all know some of the most democratic and (still) pretty far from the whole "socialism" concept that seems to scare us sometimes. Obviously, it is over there that we find the highest life expectancy in the world.
It's the state's job to provide minimal care to the citizens. 
Its intervention will certainly have repercussions over the way you live, but it would not and has not restrained the people's freedom.
This intervention does not make it any less liberal, it only will help it grow and help you live better.
[Some last sentence about coffee].