Aging and Future Healthcare Expenditure: A Consistent Approach
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Aging and Future Healthcare Expenditure: A Consistent Approach
The impact of aging on healthcare expenditure (HCE) has been at the center of a prolonged debate. This paper purports to shed light on several issues of this debate by presenting new evidence on the "red herring" hypothesis advanced by Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999). This hypothesis amounts to distinguishing a mortality from a morbidity component in healthcare expenditure (HCE) and claiming t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Forum for Health Economics & Policy
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1558-9544
DOI: 10.2202/1558-9544.1041