Denton, Frank T.; Gafni, Amiram; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2001
The effects of population aging on future health care costs are an important public policy concern in many countries … information about payments to physicians, by age and sex of patients. Using it, we derive age/cost profiles for 19 categories of … physicians. Adopting an index-theoretic framework, we then use the profiles to analyse the "pure" effects of population change …