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They can. The issue is people want everything to be federal and ignore their own state. Most Americans can’t even tell you what the first article of their own state’s constitution is about. Or their own state house rep.

The elderly population has greater healthcare spending per cap than the 20-30 year old population. Getting old sucks.

The conservatives justices (if you buy into the whole conservative/liberal justices thing) would 100% be eager to up hold a state healthcare law if it meant getting to strike down Wickard v. Filburn and allocating more power to the states.

But thanks for being at least one person in this thread who appreciates that Medicare and Medicaid are not synonyms.

America and Americans broadly do not respect “international law” as an idea. We don’t vote for representatives in a UN House of Reps or UN Senate. And if we did why would we wish to be beholden to a majority rules vote when that majority combined might be inferior militarily.

America tolerates international law when it doesn’t interfere with our course.

The idea of a “one world government” is treated as a fringe tin hat conspiracy theory nonsense that no one is advocating for.

Assuming you’re from Canada based on the .CA and says provinces (vs oblasts, cantons, or some other regional division), I would point at the interprovincial trade barriers.

You realize that between the states the US has all of those?

They can think what they want. Being wrong is a them problem.