One way to measure health care cost over time is by the Health Care Costs by Year provided by website The Balance, as reported by Kimberly Amadeo. Based on health care costs by year per person, $146 was the cost per person on average in 1960. Fifty-five years later, the cost per person has risen to $9,990 in 2015 (Amadeo, Kimberly, 2017) showing a massive increase in health care cost. Millennials must take this massive increase in medical expenses as a factor that is not included in the tried and true inflation rate calculation. Living longer will exposed the rising cost of care at a rate much higher than their parents.