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The first has a bill on the floor in the House
The second is an ongoing project that we all hope to finish as soon as the three musketeers can get their funkadelic schedules to align.
It is very easy to regionalize Healthcare, especially if you have an exchange system. You can transfer the exchanges to the regions, transfer regulatory responsibility and "access control". In so doing you basically give the regions the ability to determine the nature and structure of their healthcare system.
On the question of resources, the Federal gov't needs to maintain a presence because of the availability of resources issue (think VT and CO in RL). The Feds can pursue two options to ensure that coverage is maintained for the "special populations", and also for the poor and help for the middle class, in conjunction with the regionalized exchanges.
1. (Premium Support (my preference)/Tax Credits) directly to the people
2. Block Grants to the Regions
Anyway, to make a long story short, if there is anything you can regionalize easily, it is Healthcare, simply because we have the background of 3 years of experience, not to mention the current ongoing project.
