TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fuchs,Victor R.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Health Care for the Elderly: How Much?  Who Will Pay for It? 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - October 1998; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - The tendency of health care expenditures on the elderly to grow about 4 percent per annum more rapidly than the Gross Domestic Product could plunge the nation into a severe economic and social crisis within two decades.  This paper describes recent growth in age-sex-specific health care utilization by the elderly and discusses the important role of technology in that growth.  It also explores the potential for the elderly to pay for additional care through increases in work and savings.  Efforts to Medicare embedded in broader policy initiatives that slow the rate of growth of health care expenditures and/or increase the income of the elderly
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w6755
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w6755
ER  -