Seniors living longer is a problem. People like me on medicare should pay more, I agree. Doctors and hospitals continue to build expensive facilities, offices, etc. Think they are doing just fine. Maybe too fine.
The last time I looked hospital costs were going up fastest in large urban areas where the competition was most intense. One of my friends who used to be CofS at a big hospital here explained it to me once, in terms I thought made sense. To compete for the patients available hospitals constantly add new wings, new services, new expensive treatment modalities and so forth, and consequently operate at 65% of capacity, jacking up prices on the patients they have to try to make ends meet.