I don't think hypochondria is the problem as much as there is a degradation in the overall health of the population and they do feel unwell, but the system is u

I don't think hypochondria is the problem as much as there is a degradation in the overall health of the population and they do feel unwell, but the system is unable to diagnose them because they aren't "bad" by any quantitative standards medicine operates on (ie bloodwork/weight/etc being off). It's like how the tech world did not notice or address "the website is slow" in the 90s until folks started writing about how the 95th, 98th, 99th, 99.9th percentile times affected user experience. Once we could link 95th percentile page latency to revenue/profit, all of a sudden, investing in performance became a priority. I'm not sure that we have managed to link and make a case of linking GDP (or some other metric) to overall health of the population at the fringes.