Healthily ill

In an age where medical advances and medicines are more potent, why is it that ever more people are being classified as unhealthy or in a state of disease? By lowering arbitrary threshholds for defining 'ill-health', more people can so be classified. Just lower a value for 'good health' to below the norm and instantly create a huge population of 'sick' people.

No wonder public health insurance is overwhelmed. Many people are probably quite healthy, but they have been redefined as patients in need of treatment. Notably, many newly created diseases are healthily in society today for which there is a pill close behind.

Drug companies are at the same time highly profitable.