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Health Care Expenditures and Longevity: Is there a Eubie Blake Effect?
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - 2012
-sectional evidence to make inferences on a development over time. In this paper we try to isolate the impact of rising longevity on the … dynamic panel data models, we find that age, mortality rate and five-year survival rates have a positive impact on per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327738
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The "Red Herring" after 20 Years: Ageing and Health Care Expenditures
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann - 2019
20 years ago, Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999) established the by now famous "red-herring" hypothesis, according to which population ageing does not lead to an increase in per capita health care expenditures (HCE) because the observed positive correlation between age and health care expenditures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179750
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Aging and Health Care Expenditures: A Non-Parametric Approach
Lorenz, Normann; Ihle, Peter; Breyer, Friedrich - 2020
-parametric approach is particularly useful to answer the question whether age still has an impact on HCE once TTD is taken into account … grow considerably faster than HCE of survivors. We explore the impact of these findings on the simulation of future HCE and … find that population aging will in fact contribute to rising HCE in the coming decades. We also find that the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207981
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Wie nachhaltig sind die gesetzliche Kranken- und Pflegeversicherung finanziert?
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 100 (2020) 8, pp. 591-596
Sollten die Ausgaben der gesetzlichen Kranken- und der sozialen Pflegeversicherung langfristig stark steigen, werden sowohl die jüngere Generation durch höhere Beiträge als auch die Älteren durch mögliche Leistungseinschränkungen belastet. Auf Grundlage einer neueren nichtparametrischen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306487
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Looking into the black box of "medical progress": Rising health expenditures by illness type and age
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2021
There is agreement among health economists that on the whole medical innovation causes health care expenditures (HCE) to rise. This paper analyzes for which diagnoses and in which age groups HCE per patient have grown significantly faster than average HCE. We distinguish decedents (patients in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439839
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Looking into the black box of "medical progress": Rising health expenditures by illness type and age
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2021
There is agreement among health economists that on the whole medical innovation causes health care expenditures (HCE) to rise. This paper analyzes for which diagnoses and in which age groups HCE per patient have grown significantly faster than average HCE. We distinguish decedents (patients in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662712
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Health care expenditures and longevity: Is there a Eubie Blake effect?
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - 2012
impact of rising longevity on the trend of HCE over time by using data for a pseudo-panel of German sickness fund members … a positive impact on per-capita HCE. Our explanation for the last finding is that physicians treat patients more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283749
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Looking into the black box of “Medical Innovation”: rising health expenditures by illness type
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 23 (2022) 9, pp. 1601-1612
There is agreement among health economists that on the whole medical innovation causes health care expenditures (HCE) to rise. This paper analyzes for which diagnoses HCE per patient have grown significantly faster than average HCE. We distinguish decedents (patients in their last 4 years of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015131472
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Health Care Expenditures and Longevity: Is There a Eubie Blake Effect?
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
impact of rising longevity on the trend of HCE over time by using data for a pseudo-panel of German sickness fund members … a positive impact on per-capita HCE. Our explanation for the last finding is that physicians treat patients more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010559810
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Health Care Expenditures and Longevity: Is there a Eubie Blake Effect?
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - Fach Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Trier - 2012
-sectional evidence to make inferences on a development over time. In this paper we try to isolate the impact of rising longevity on the … dynamic panel data models, we find that age, mortality rate and five-year survival rates have a positive impact on per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720370