that have been distinguished by Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999), viz. the cost of morbidity and the cost of mortality … (their "red herring" hypothesis claims that neglecting the mortality component results in excessive estimates of future …

different variables, like life expectancy, infant mortality and the share of the elderly. In the extended models, a …

mortality risk to higher ages will not affect lifetime health care expenditures as death occurs only once in every life. We … life and for survivors, which we apply to the projections of the age structure and mortality rates for the German …