This plan allows for preventive medicine which in the long run will save the government money. People getting checkups will be able to learn if they have high blood pressure or diabetes before it's a real health issue.
Medication and nutrition advice is a lot cheaper than hospitalization in the long run.
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."
-- Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU.