Medicine was much cheaper then, mostly because if you had any of the sicknesses that require 100 000 USD drugs now - you just died. Part of it is patent law, p

Medicine was much cheaper then, mostly because if you had any of the sicknesses that require 100 000 USD drugs now - you just died. Part of it is patent law, part of it is dysfunctional American healthcare system that drives prices up, but big part of that is that medicine just got much better and much more inherently expansive.