The average American can live a relatively healthy lifestyle off of $10/day in food expenses preparing their own meals (unless you live in high-cost regions). T

The average American can live a relatively healthy lifestyle off of $10/day in food expenses preparing their own meals (unless you live in high-cost regions). The majority of cancer diagnoses occur after 50 years of age. Assuming you start earning an income at the age of 20, if you stuck $10 under your mattress daily (the same amount that you could for relatively healthy meals) you would have $109,500 by age 50. Switch to health insurance (found a plan in my state for $129 that does provide for cancer coverage - your situation may differ) and throw the rest into a dollar-cost-averaging investment account and the situation is even brighter. There's a difference between "too expensive and difficult to deal with" and "I have no plans in place to deal with it nor the desire to implement them". And while that makes sense (most humans are hungry at regular intervals and sick at irregular intervals and thus budget accordingly) you shouldn't pretend like the average citizen is ever prepared for anything outside of their routine - with the exception of buying "gifts" for themselves, which they are more than capable of budgeting for. I think our system is far from perfect, but if you're going to pretend that the cost of food dramatically outweighs the cost of paying for health care I really worry for your health due to lack of nutrition.