“Liberty dies with thunderous applause”

Has Consitutional Freedom and Liberty now died with the passage of the "healthcare reform" bill by the Senate?

The applause from when the US House, and now the US Senate, rings in my ears. The notion of a limited government is not even a fading memory within the Collective of the Majority Party (the Democrat Party). With many Democrat Congressmen and Senators insisting that the Constitution allows the United States Government to force its citizens to purchase a good/service from private companies (formerly known as health insurance companies which with all of the regulation, have been turned into nationalized entities at worst, public healthcare payment systems at best) simply by invoking the Commerce clause or the phrase "general welfare".

Roger Simon at PajamasMedia had this to say when the House passed this Constitutional abomination (emphasis mine):

Yesterday, in the dead of night, the U.S. House of Representatives took a small step for Nancy Pelosi and a giant step for despotism.

Freedom, David Hume famously observed, is seldom lost all at once. More often, it leaks out slowly. The petty tyranny of good intentions colludes with the bureaucratic imperative to stymie individual initiative and barter liberty for the sake of central control.

Over a hundred new regulation entities, with large swaths of "to be determined later" regs by the HHS Secretary?

What ever happened to letting Citizens decide?