Checkups and preventative care are not there for fun. They save money as a whole and in the long run, as other commenters also note. Imagine everyone was disin

Checkups and preventative care are not there for fun. They save money as a whole and in the long run, as other commenters also note. Imagine everyone was disincentivized from doing a cancer-related checkup, get vaccinated, or check if they have a cold, the flu, or something worse. It is better to spend x now than deal with a crisis (either individual or epidemic related) spending orders of magnitude more.