[quote=@Penny] So cover everyone with mandated government healthcare with flexible systems of delivery? I'm on board. We can even call it something other than universal healthcare if that will make people feel better. [/quote] I know you are just stripping posts of all nuance in order to get in a jab at your ideological enemies and beat up a few strawmen but I actually think it [i]could [/i]be done if we did it state by state. The UK has a lower GDP per capita than Tennessee and they have a national healthcare system, after all.