Medical care and subjective health

This was interesting:

"Access to more medicine and medical care doesn't really improve our subjective health. For example, in the United States, the percentage of Americans reporting very good health decreased from 39 percent to 28 percent from 1982 to 2006," Zheng said.

...It seems counterintuitive, but that's what the evidence shows. More medicine doesn't lead to citizens feeling better about their health -- it actually hurts."

The article relating this study can be read here.