The entire food pipeline is heavily subsidized by the government, from advantageous loans to crop price insurance to direct cash subsidies to a sales tax exemption, to SNAP to people who can't afford food. I agree wholeheartedly with the bakery comment, that they try to maximize profits, but, bread is less than a dollar a loaf and significant expense and effort is taken to ensure everyone is fed. There seems to be no will to do the same for healthcare.