期刊名称：Hacienda Pública Española. Revista de Economía Pública
印刷版ISSN：0210-1173
出版年度：2009
卷号：2009
期号：188
页码：55-55
出版社：Ministerio de Hacienda, Instituto de Estudios Fiscales
摘要：Government healthcare expenditures have been growing much more rapidly than GDP in OECD countries.
How much of this growth is due to demographic change versus increases in benefit levels (expenditures
per person at a given age)? This paper answers this question for ten OECD countries –Australia,
Austria, Canada, Germany, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the U.S. using data
from 1970-2002. Growth in benefit levels explains 89 of overall healthcare spending growth in the ten
countries over the period, with Norway, Spain, and the U.S. recording the highest annual benefit
growth rates. As we show, allowing government healthcare benefit levels to grow at historic rates is
fraught with danger given the impending retirement of the baby boom generation.
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