Federalism and the “Laboratory” States

US advocates called it a laboratory state. A new policy would be implemented in a particular state, without involving the entire nation of such experiment. If it failed, that state alone takes the consequences to the exclusion of others. On the other hand, if it succeeds, other states including the national government would follow, duplicate, or replicate it.
In the Philippines, under this present system, we do not have such wide discretion or options. With only a dot of flexibility, we are bound by a pack-one-pack-all system. We are made to bow or fall in line in a single policy.