The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency overseeing the programs, has warned that between 2015 and 2021, health spending is set to grow at an average annual rate of 6.2% as a result of the aging of the population, expansion of access to care under the federal health-care law, and an improvement in economic conditions.
And contrary to what the Obama White House team suggested during the election campaign, this leap is not due to the aging of the population.
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The generic industry is being driven by the aging of the population, escalating health care costs, political and financial pressure to accommodate generic drug growth, and increased generic penetration, especially in Japan, Italy, Spain and France.
Spending will exceed 22 percent, at the low end of what many Democrats think is acceptable given the aging of the population.
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Furthermore, this is just the impact of the aging population on business cycles, there is also the very serious problem of how it will affect our finances.
And the aging of our population is an even more dramatic shift than its increasingly tan hue.
So is the aging of the population, creating more single widows and widowers, an effect that will grow as the baby boom retires.
"With the aging of our population, the pension and annuity market will have to be opened up, " says Jason Tuan of Peregrine Securities Taiwan.
Europeans worry that the aging of their population means economic stagnation.
The aging of the population is driven in part by the decline in marriage, which the Democrats have to thank for all those unmarried female voters.
They are expected to benefit from the aging of a population ever more reliant on prescription drugs, as well as wider availability of advanced medicines and health insurance coverage.
On top of this lies the problem of an aging population, exacerbated by the size of the baby boomer demographic.
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Bankers have been growing wary of nursing-home operators despite the aging of the American population.
This is the effect of aging population: millions more people will be eligible for Medicare, and healthcare costs grow as we get older.
These important steps will not only build health care career opportunities for veterans, but also help to expand the health workforce to meet the needs of the growing and aging population.
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While in developed countries the aging population and an increasing rate of chronic diseases among the older population will continue to drive demand for nutrition products, the rise of the middle class is likely to boost sales in emerging markets.
With the leading edge of the 78 million baby boomers now in their early 60s, America's aging population underpins the bullish future of health care as a sector.
Many of these jobs are health-care and engineering support positions, driven by the aging baby boomer population and the increasing automation of technology and manufacturing machinery.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) questions to ministers range across the implications of the UK's aging population and tourism and commerce visa restrictions on visitors from China.
An analysis of data from the past three censuses shows that because of baby boomers' "aging in place, " the population of those age 45 and over grew 18 times as fast as the population under age 45 between 2000 and 2010, said William Frey, a demographer and senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute.
In the case of Japan, the country is confronted with an aging population, which will lead to greater spending of those savings.
However, many Democrats will feel it is too low given the needs of an aging population.
The combination of an aging population, low tax revenue and rising debt make these fears palpable.
It is my hope that attending to the needs of our aging population is not viewed as a political issue.
Like Congressman Paul Ryan, he assumes that federal spending can be immunized from the demands of population aging and rising health care costs.
At that point you'll have a larger number of people going into retirement and a smaller number, relatively speaking, available to support the needs of the aging population.
Yes, the biggest driver of our long-term debt is the rising cost of health care for an aging population.
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