My medical bills are supposed to be thousands per month. I live on under $2000 per month most of the time. I am vastly more productive in dry areas with little ragweed and I need much less in the way of medical care.

This is part of why a lot of these one-sized-fits-all solutions for poor Americans are fundamentally bad ideas: They optimize for one metric only -- upfront cost -- and completely ignore large numbers of other issues.

The reality is that "cheap" solutions are often very expensive. Poverty is an expensive way to live.

If you look at the lifetime cost of a solution, the "cheap" answer is often the absolute most expensive in the long run.