Public Health Care - Why not at state level first?

[Barcalounger]

In my state of Illinois there is a bill up currently that would move towards state health care. Not sure of the exact details, maybe iron could fill you in.

My guess is that one reason that states don't try this themselves more often is that they are already going broke. Especially the blue states that would most want to but are currently propping up the red states financially.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/62.html