… LMICs spend on their own health greatly overshadows the $46 billion in development assistance
for health, we should reflect on which spending … Many, if not most, studies about health …

… Macro-level models restrict the analysis to aggregate health expenditures. They are most
appropriate for short-term projections in the presence of clear and undisturbed trends and in …

… endogenous health, I argue that Social Security increases the aggregate health spending of
… What are the effects of Social Security on aggregate health spending? Can the expansion of …

… Aggregate health spending climbed to $1.6 trillion, or $5,440 per person (Exhibit 1 ). After
overall health … billion growth in health spending in 2002, as private health insurance payments …

… to the aggregate share of out-of-pocket spending over total … we used the aggregate share
of out-of-pocket spending over … the reference year were then aggregated up to the regional …

… Projections for aggregate national health spending reflect a range of underlying assumptions
for factors influencing supply and demand. Demographic shifts, declining insurance …

… , we also project health spending based on a scenario … aggregate personal health care
spending, which is a subset of national health spending that includes only the purchase of health …

… Second, to approximate the magnitude of the aggregate income effect, we relied on
estimates based on how health spending varies across countries and time. The consensus that …

… Our objective is to provide causal estimates of the effect of income on aggregate health
spending. There are at least two important challenges in this exercise. The first is that income …

… Nevertheless, the aggregate effect of technology on health expenditure is still understood
to be cost increasing. Different estimates of the impact of technological progress on …