Although end-of-life medical spending is often viewed as a major component of aggregate
medical expenditure, accurate measures of this type of medical spending are scarce. We …

We use data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) to document the medical
spending of Americans aged 65 and older. We find that medical expenses more than double …

We bring together estimates of patterns of medical spending in all nine countries considered
in this issue–Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands …

We use claims panel data from a big German private health insurer to provide detailed
individual‐level evidence on medical spending between 2005 and 2011. This includes …

Healthcare for all - A critical review of Taiwan's national health insurance system through a
social institution lens Healthcare for all - A critical review of Taiwan's national health insurance …

We assess the quality of the HRS's measures of out-of-pocket medical spending and health
insurance premia, both in the “core interviews” and in the “exit interview” data. We provide …

Background Both the size of the older population and the use of complementary and
alternative medicine are increasing worldwide. This study evaluated the long-term trend in …

This paper studies medical spending in France from three perspectives: concentration,
persistence, and evolution before death. We use claims data from a representative sample …

Colombia is among the countries with the most robust financial protection against personal
health spending in the world, with out-of-pocket spending ranking lowest across OECD …

Health care spending growth in Japan has accelerated in recent years, unlike in most OECD
countries. It is thus important to characterise the structure of recent medical spending using …