This paper summarizes the many aspects of public policy for health care. I first consider government policy affecting individual behaviors. Government intervention to change individual actions such as
This paper proposes a new set of public health and long-term care expenditure projections until 2060, seven years after a first set of projections was published by the OECD. It disentangles health fro
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More than 70% of health spending across OECD countries is funded from public sources. In all OECD countries, a significant share of the economy is used to improve or preserve the health of the populat
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