The most important reason anyone is an atheist

[Little Rik]

I see what you're getting at, but you're forgetting a few key factors. Firstly, not only has the average life expectancy increased, but the number of people surviving to that age as also increased - the global population has quadrupled in the last 100 years. A lot of illnesses, diseases and conditions that primarily affect the elderly will occur much more frequently, simply because there are more elderly people to be affected by them.
Another point worth mentioning is that our ability to recognise and diagnose new illnesses has definitely improved, so a lot of those "new" illnesses aren't new at all.
There are also a range of factors in modern day life that can contribute to things such as cancer, many of which we have yet to determine, but it is undeniable that our ability to diagnose, treat and cure such diseases and conditions has dramatically improved.
I think the most important thing to consider when discussing the amount of empty hospital beds is the number of hospital beds per capita. I think it's that percentage going down, rather the number of illnesses going up, which is causing the problem.

Thanks for bringing forwards these statistics.
However there is one thing that you guys do not understand.
Suppose in a river there is more and more water.
The banks or levees start overflow.
What you do?
You tend to put bags of sand or do something else so the water would not come where you live.
What then happen?
It will happen that the water will start spilling elsewhere.
The same thing happen with the effect originated from the cause in the medical issue.
The only way to stop having effect is to prevent the cause in the first place.
Can medical science do this?
Of course it can not because within this finite world the positive always come with the negative (yin & young) so there is no way that medical science will ever come on top.
All it can do is try to limit the damages and that is all.
The cause of all trouble and not only medical trouble can be solved there where there is no negative factor and that is in spirituality but that is something that you guys and medical science as well still do not know much about.