[Jim Robinson]

Local controlled county hospitals and clinics, religious or charity hospitals and clinics, local controlled welfare. The feds have no business whatsoever in health care.

[Torie]

You do know that localizing welfare and redistribution programs would cause both to rapidly collapse don't you? The poor would tend to go where the benefits are most generous, the rich to where the taxes are lowest (presumably with not generous benefits), and the whole financial edifice would rapidly unravel. Sometimes invoking the mantra of localization shortcuts thinking about the real consequences.