Never misunderestimate the stupidity of some of the US electorate.
Part of the reason the push towards socialized medicine has been so successful is because since the failure of Hillarycare in the early 1990s, all the people have been hearing is how "bad" our system is and how much "better" a commie system would be. There has been no rebuttal from doctors, insurance companies or anyone else touting the complete superiority of the free market. As the old saying goes, if a lie gets repeated often enough, it becomes the truth.
That is why analysis of the debacles of socialized care, where they exist in the United States, is so important. People can see with their own eyes, by looking at Wisconsin or Massachusetts, what these policies will bring.
For some reason, folks look at the Canadian or UK system and think that we can avoid those problems. But when Wisconsin can't make it work, it is harder to write that off.
Perhaps the result of the “Laboratories of Democracy” is that we evolve even more into a nation of welfare states and free market states. Some states will be wealth producers and some will be wealth sinks. The trick will be to prevent the transfer of money from wealth producing states to wealth consuming states, so the people of those states must bear the burden of their popularly approved system.
So, if Wisconsin wishes to attract all of the non-productive and high-cost citizens in the country and tax itself as required in order to support them, there is no good reason that they should not be allowed to do so. We just must be very careful to make sure the US Treasury does not wind up paying for programs approved by the Wisconsin Legislature.
Similarly, of Wisconsin wishes to drive out all productive members of their society through confiscatory taxes, there are 49 other states who will be more than happy to have them. What’s wrong with that. People should be permitted to shop for the government they want.