THE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE AGE DISTRIBUTION OF HEALTH SPENDING: A...

Public Finance and Management;  January 1, 2007 ;   Sheiner, Louise;   787 words ......expenditures is to assume that relative health spending by age remains constant. This method...technological innovations on increasing health spending on the elderly relative to the non-elder...theoretical effects of technology on health spending are to decrease the concentration...

The Monster At Our Door; Uncontrolled health spending poses ugly choices:...

Newsweek;  September 18, 2006 ;   Samuelson, Robert J.;   787 words ......quarters of that increase will be health spending--mostly Medicare, but also Medicaid...the old and disabled). The rise in health spending exceeds all of today's discretionary...it easily. We all know that runaway health spending is already driving up the number of...

Fed: Health spending grows faster than economy - report

AAP General News (Australia);  January 30, 2004 ;     151 words ......Australia) 01-30-2004 Fed: Health spending grows faster than economy...new report's found that health spending has been growing faster...decade. It's found total health spending has topped $66 billion in...

Fed: Health spending grows faster than economy: report

AAP General News (Australia);  January 30, 2004 ;     472 words ......General News (Australia) 01-30-2004 Fed: Health spending grows faster than economy: report...Sandra O'Malley CANBERRA, Jan 30 AAP - Health spending has grown faster than the economy...new report has found. It found total health spending topped $66 billion in 2001/02, with...

Fed: Majority of budget health spending not new: report =2

AAP General News (Australia);  May 16, 2007 ;     106 words ......Australia) 05-16-2007 Fed: Majority of budget health spending not new: report =2 Health and Ageing...interim explanation for its criticism of health spending growth. "Typically, health spending increases are higher in the coming financial...

Fed: Health spending grew faster than economy - report

AAP General News (Australia);  February 7, 2003 ;     222 words ...00-00-0000 Fed: Health spending grew faster than economy - report CANBERRA, Feb 7 AAP - Health spending grew faster than the economy over...services for 2003 said. By comparison, health spending accounted for 7.9 per cent of GDP...

Costello kills hopes of extra health spending

AAP General News (Australia);  February 14, 2003 ;     162 words ...00-00-0000 Costello kills hopes of extra health spending Federal Treasurer PETER COSTELLO has...government for an extra $2 billion in health spending funded by an increase in the Medicare...won't accept a Budget with no new health spending while huge sums are pumped into defence...

In Smallest Rise Since '86, Health Spending Was Up 7.8% in '93

The Washington Post;  November 23, 1994 ;   Spencer Rich;   464 words ...Health spending by Americans increased 7.8 percent...the annual increases in nationwide health spending were in double digits. But whether...Shalala said that while the growth of health spending slowed from 8.6 percent in 1992...

Fed: Rankings of OECD countries' health spending

AAP General News (Australia);  September 26, 2008 ;     141 words ...Fed: Rankings of OECD countries' health spending Rankings of 27 OECD nations' health spending - excluding health research - per person...and Welfare AAP RTV wz/psm/ KEYWORD: HEALTH SPENDING (CANBERRA) 2008 AAP Information Services...

Health spending record

The Press;  May 5, 1998 ;     203 words ...WELLINGTON -- New Zealand's health spending is the highest it has been at 7.8...released a Ministry of Health report on health spending trends, saying the publicly funded share of health spending was growing and was now 77.3 per cent...

Fed: Costello quashes hope of extra health spending

AAP General News (Australia);  February 13, 2003 ;     428 words ......Fed: Costello quashes hope of extra health spending By Sandra O'Malley and Rod McGuirk...government for an extra $2 billion in health spending, funded by an increase in the Medicare...would not accept a budget with no new health spending. While the government seeks to focus...

Fed: PM plays down figures showing surge in health spending

AAP General News (Australia);  September 30, 2005 ;     127 words ......down figures showing surge in health spending The Prime Minister's playing down the latest surge in health spending, amid fears the jump could quash...or Medicare. JOHN HOWARD says health spending is rising because of Australia...

Health spending forecast to outpace the economy

Charleston Gazette;  February 7, 2003 ;   The Associated Press;   213 words ...WASHINGTON - Health spending is expected to outpace the rest...decade, government economists say. Health spending is expected to jump to $3.1 trillion...Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. Health spending was at $1.4 trillion in 2001...

Health spending dragging states into black holes.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  May 9, 2003 ;     178 words ......which was handed down on 8 May 2003. Health spending has been raised by $A2.45 billion...taxes in order to fund the rise in health spending. It is believed that the rate of growth...unsustainable . The rate of growth in health spending is around twice the rate of revenue...

With all the worries over Medicaid's ballooning budget, here's one nugget...

City Limits;  November 1, 2004 ;     109 words ......one nugget of good: Federal health spending provides a sizable boost to...created by 2012--that means health spending is going into local pockets...Side of the Ledger: Federal Health Spending in Metropolitan Economies...