My wife has also struggled with lymphoma. We’re on five years now. She was hospitalized for two months before her first diagnosis (if they sent her home she’d be dead). She was hospitalized for a month during her BMT to treat her recurrence. In between she was hospitalized dozens of times for chemotherapy and complications. I have a record of billing that brings the total cost to close to a million.

This seems exceptional, but no. My brother had lymphoma too. It was unresponsive to standard treatment, so Car T cell therapy saved him. One tiny bag of genetically engineered cells costs over $100,000. He too is a million dollar man. Lymphoma is one of the most common, and most treatable, cancers.

You cannot self fund health insurance unless your plan is to never get cancer.