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No. There's 50 states with their own legislative bodies and laws. Our system of federalism is much better than any gives it credit for at ensuring that people of different places can live as they please. The limited nature of federal government means that the most changes are actually state level choices.
Which state has the free health care?
Pretty sure Hawaii still has their publicly-funded healthcare option. I know a number of communities across the US had much smaller free insurance programs that mostly died off when the ACA passed. Some of them might still exist as heavily means-tested shadows of their former selves.
Massachusetts has free or subsidized healthcare for everyone below three times the FPL.