What drives health care spending?: Can we know whether population aging is a 'red herring'?
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Center for Retirement Research working paper
- Contributor(s):
- Aaron, Henry J. Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
- Publication:
- Chestnut Hill, MA : Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, c2009
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Expenditures -- statistics & numerical data Health Expenditures -- trends Longevity Mortality Population Dynamics Terminal Care -- economics Age Factors Aging Budgets Forecasting Health Transition Life Expectancy Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Several empirical studies have presented evidence that per-person health care spending does not rise with calendar age but with proximity to death. Hence, it is alleged that increases in longevity will not, by themselves, boost health care spending. Unfortunately, available data provide no basis for assuming that the curve relating average health care spending to age will, or will not, flatten with increases in longevity. For this reason, budget projections based on the assumption that increases in longevity will not boost health care spending may understate projected growth of health care spending.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 26 p.
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101519289 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101519289