Does a Program at the Post Add "Free" to Any Mention of "Trade?"

That's what millions are asking after seeing a discussion of a wage insurance program proposed by President Obama which included the line:

"Wage insurance has also been proposed as a way to ease concerns about free trade and the disruptive effects of technological change."

Does the word "free" add anything substantive to this sentence? It does tell readers that we are supposed to like the trade that is displacing workers, but presumably there is nothing in the wage insurance proposal that wil...