> A large number of Americans desire massive federal power. It's complicated. A 2016 Gallup poll (https://news.gallup.com/poll/27286/government.aspx https://n

> A large number of Americans desire massive federal power. It's complicated. A 2016 Gallup poll (https://news.gallup.com/poll/27286/government.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/27286/government.aspx) revealed that 55 percent of respondents preferred power to be concentrated in state governments; 37 percent preferred the federal government. Another group of surveys (https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa759_web.pdf https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa759_web...) shows that Americans strongly prefer state and local governments to lead on health insurance (62 percent, versus 38 percent preferring federal leadership), welfare (68/31 percent), unemployment (55/26 percent), education (75/25 percent), pre-kindergarten education (71/25 percent), transportation (78/22 percent), law enforcement (73/20 percent), job training (75/20 percent), housing (83/18 percent), and paving roads (77/9 percent). The problem with the universal health care polls is that 1) "universal healthcare" is such a broad term that can mean anything from NHS style single provider to Switzerland style universal privatized systems, and 2) it's entirely possible to favor a "universal healthcare" system that's administered and funded at the State level as opposed to the Federal level.