Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) appeared on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos Sunday and explained his opposition to the Affordable Care Act in very broad terms.

I think this, at the end of the day, is a big philosophy difference. What -- what Mrs. Kennedy and others were saying is this is new government-granted right. We disagree with the notion that our rights come from government, that the government can now grant us and define our rights.

Those are ours. Those come from nature and God, according to the Declaration of Independence, a huge difference in philosophy. And so what we're saying is, there are principles and reforms that we could have passed into law, which we still want to, that address these legitimate problems without putting the government in such a central role in our lives and in our economy, which we think is going to hurt our economy, bring us toward a debt crisis, and -- and make the American health care system that much worse.

Is he right? Does one way on health care affirm the place of God in the universe, and the other deny it?