What drives health care spending?

Aaron, Henry J. “What drives health care spending?”. CRR WP 2009-18, Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, October 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104896.
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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.

Title
What drives health care spending?: Can we know whether population aging is a 'red herring'?
Author
Aaron, Henry J.
Center
Center for Retirement Research
Genre
working paper
Date Issued
October 2009
Publisher
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Series Title
CRR WP
Series Number
2009-18
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104896
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Subject
Health/long-term care

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