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Fact Based List:
Health Care Costs from Birth to Death: 5 Key Findings
Submitted By jryan@mcol.com, Created 05/17/2013 - 10:26
- An aging population is not an overwhelming driver of health care spending
- The cost of children’s health care is rising
- Delaying childbirth has shifted the high point of young women’s health care spending from the late twenties to the early 30s
- Health costs are twice as high for people with cancer or other chronic conditions
- Older men are more costly than older women
Source: Health Care Cost Institute
Source URL: http://www.healthcostinstitute.org/SOA-1-2013
Notes: Health Care Costs from Birth to Death examines the impact of age and gender on pre-retiree, retiree, Medicare, and disease health costs