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| Title: | | "Steeping" Of Health Expenditure Profiles  |
| Authors: | | Buchner, Florian Wasem, Jürgen |
| Issue Date: | | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Diskussionsbeiträge aus dem Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen 139 |
| Abstract: | | If health care expenditure for the elderly grows faster than for younger people, the expenditure profiles become "steeper" – we call that "steeping". Three instruments for measuring "steeping" are presented: (1) trend of the relation between per-capita-expenditure of the old and the young; (2) comparing the linear slopes of per-capita-expenditure in age groups; (3) trend in parameters of non-linear modelling of expenditure profiles. Using data of the largest German private health insurer over a period of 18 years, "steeping" could be observed by all three methods in most examined insurance plans. A prognosis for 2040 shows that per-capita-expenditure will increase by 128 %. |
| Subjects: | | health care expenditure expenditure profiles demographics |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IBES Diskussionsbeiträge, Universität Duisburg-Essen
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