Il Pay-as-You-Go pubblico e privato: davvero diversi? Un confronto Europa - Us

Data from Stability Programs (European Countries) and from Us Congress Budget Office and Us Bureau of Census are collected to investigate the burden each worker will have to bear in the future in order to finance pension and health care provisions. If the private side of the system is based, exclusively or mainly, on the insurance pooling, is there any substantial difference between Europe and Us, with respect to future challenges. Is insurance pooling really different from pay-as-you-go financing, in a context of rapid population ageing? The structural roots of future challenges appears the same for Europe and Us, and perhaps also the policy solution. This paper is self standing but, at the same time, it is part of the broader project "Present and Future of PayGo in Italy, Europe and Us". All chapters will be collected in a book edited by Nicola Carmine Salerno.