Colombier, Carsten; Weber, Werner - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
authors conclude that proximity to death and not age per se matters. In projecting health care expenditure for Switzerland the … present study provides evidence that proximity to death is of marginal importance. These projections suggest that population … overestimate proximity to death due to systematic biases. Finally, ever-increasing health-care expenditure can be slowed down by …