Came here to say this. It’s unclear that medical care has improved for people as the costs have gone up. If they’ve only gotten more expensive, then in a basket-of-goods analysis, earning power has decreased.

Edit: Just to be clear, obviously techniques and procedures get ever more sophisticated. The question is more specifically whether the average person is seeing an improvement in care that is proportional to the increase in costs. E.g., if office appointment costs have doubled for someone over the past ten years, have they seen a double or greater increase in effectiveness of care? Or is it just more expensive.