I've never really understood this argument. Perhaps it would make sense if the U.S. was a poor country, but U.S. is a very rich country per capita. It can affor

I've never really understood this argument. Perhaps it would make sense if the U.S. was a poor country, but U.S. is a very rich country per capita. It can afford to pay everyone healthcare, especially if it was serious about increasing hospital and pharmaceutical competition as well as medical services transparency. It also requires changing some priorities like say not being involved in 7 wars at once. The current administration has just increased the military budget by another $60 billion. But in 2016 the media on both sides was all about how the U.S. "couldn't afford to pay $70 billion a year for free public college." It's bullshit. It's all about priorities. Saying it should be up to states makes no sense, because obviously a lot of states wouldn't be able to afford it this way. It would be like saying let's let the Nordic villages handle their own healthcare. That wouldn't work, would it? But it works at a more centralized level because the country is rich per capita. And so is the U.S.