Healthcare expenditure projections up to 2060

Carsten Colombier

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: A key concern of this study is to evaluate the increase in healthcare expenditure as a result of an ageing Swiss population and to highlight the resulting financial burden for the public finances and mandatory basic healthcare insurance. In addition, the study also shows the adjustment levers through which healthcare policy can influence expenditure development in the healthcare system. In addition to the ageing of the population per se, the costs of healthcare are also significantly influenced by the relationship between increasing life expectancy and the state of health of the population (morbidity rate) on the one hand, and non-demographic cost drivers such as advances in medical technology and Baumol’s cost disease (the “Baumol Effect”) on the other.

Keywords: healthcare expenditure; long-term care expenditure; population ageing; fiscal sustainability; public budget; mandatory healthcare insurance; health policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H51 I13 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-05
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/104919/1/MPRA_paper_104919.pdf original version (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:104919

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().