alt Hacker NewsYou said
> generally standardizing things across the nation would be a net positive.
The person you replied to said
> federal... should be restricted to providing...basic guidelines that have to be met
You may be closer in opinion than you realize.
Btw what the person you responded to described is how the Canadian healthcare system - which many liberal-type Americans on Reddit appear to admire - works. The federal government sets standards and provides some funding. The provinces implement it their own way.
Exactly - the key is to have very high-level and outcome-driven guidelines and not trying to micromanage everything; that allows various methods to be tried, and the best ones will start to be emulated.
(Another underlying reality is that the vast majority of people will say education and healthcare are "very important" but very few people will move to improve either of those - beyond going out of state for college.)