[quote=@Kratesis] 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 capital than Tennessee and they have a national healthcare system, after all. [/quote] Ok? So we agree that a universal (in the sense that all people would be covered) healthcare system is possible? Great, like I said I'm on board. Imagine the efficiency of scale you could get with 300 million people....