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Rising health spending but who benefits
Presented by Sarina Fisher
Centre for International Economics
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28 July 2015
The ‘up and up’ of health costs
Health costs are consuming a growing proportion of resources…
.. and taking up a growing slice of the tax revenue pie, outcompeting government funds for other public services
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Chart 1: Ratio of health expenditure to GDP
Chart 2: Health spending as a % of taxation revenue
Source: AIHW 2014, Health expenditure Australia 2012-13
Dollar spend is rising and source of funds is changing, but little shift in spending profile
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Capital expenditure Other recurrent Primary care Hospitals
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Very little change in the distribution of total spending by area of expenditure
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Very little change in the distribution of total spending by area of expenditure
$147.4bn in 2012-13
Health spending continued to rise, up
64%over the past decade
Source: AIHW health expenditure database
Chart 3: Total expenditure on health, constant prices
Chart 4: Health spending by source
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Australian Government health expenditureState and Territory Government health expenditureNon-Government health expenditure
Average annual growth in spending per person2002-03 − 2007-08
Average annual growth in spending per person2008-09 − 2012-13
3.3 3.9 3.3 4.24.02.3
Consistent increase in non-Govt spending with growth in 2012-13 at a decade high
Source: AIHW health expenditure database
Everyone is spending more on hospitals■ Hospital spending accounts for 38% of health spending, but
takes the lions share of state and territory health budgets (70%), and is increasing as a share of non-government health spending (27%)
■ PHI’s hospital spending budget is increasingly making room for public hospital spending
■ Policy is driving up individual spending on hospitals. Following the 2008 increase in the MLS income threshold, growth in individual spending on hospitals has averaged 25%, compared to 6% for PHI and 4% for government
■ Individual spending on private hospitals has been strongest, averaging 31% p.a. over past 5 years, possibly reflecting the drift to exclusionary and excess/ co-payment products
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Chart 5: Spending on hospitals as a % of total funding by source
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Source: AIHW health expenditure database
37.0%
64.1%
25.2%
32.8%
69.5%
27.4%
AustralianGovernment
State andTerritoryGovernment
Non-Government
Outer rim = 2012-13 Inner rim = 2002-03
Chart 6: PHI’s growing role in public hospital funding
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Source: AIHW health expenditure database
84.0%
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$5.7bn$418m
$904m
Key policy drivers impacting on individual health spend■ Medicare pays 75% of scheduled fee for private patients in
public/private hospital, and 85% of scheduled fee for a specialist, patients pay gap plus any above-schedule fee
■ 2010-11 Medicare levy introduced (1.5%). 1 July 2012 new income thresholds introduced with higher rates of the surcharge for high income earners
■ 1 July 2015, general patients pay $5 for each PBS prescription and $145.30 more to reach the safety net for concessional rate (lesser rises for concession card holders)
■ 1 July 2015, patients may pay (optional) $5 towards bulk billed standard GP consults and out-of-hospital pathology and imaging services. States and Territories allowed to introduce contributions for GP equivalent visits to EDwww.TheCIE.com.au8
Chart 7: Growth in private hospital funding, constant prices
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Source: AIHW health expenditure database
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$202m
$3.6bn$5.7bn
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PHI premium increases consistently above CPI because of benefits expenditure growth
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Source: Department of Health and ABS
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Weighted average industry premium increase MBF Bupa CPI
Premium growth well above CPI
Source: Department of Health and ABS
Chart 9: Premium increases across the industry and for the largest PHIs
But as you would expect given growth in benefits expenditure
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Source: PHIAC
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Chart 8: Hospital and General Treatment Benefits
Future cost of health care: … up some more
■ Currently >25% of Aust. Government spending is for health, age–related pensions and aged care
■ In GDP terms, Australian Government spending on health is forecast to rise the most in % of GDP terms, widening the spending gap between health and all other areas of Australian Government funding
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Health spending projections foretell ongoing pressure to share the funding burden
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Source: Commonwealth Treasury projections, Intergenerational Report 2015
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Health dominates spending growth
Chart 10: Projected Australian Government spending by category
Forecast spending confirms Govt emphasis on primary care, leaving increases in other spending to be met by non-Govt
■ No planned increase in real per person expenditure on the PHI rebate, which will be flat for next 15 years ($280 in 2014-15 to $283 in 2027-28
■ Medicare will growth the most from $855 to $1071 per person
■ Pharma spending to rise from $420 to $474 per person
■ Public hospital spending to rise from $647 to $680 per person
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Commonwealth prioritises primary care for growth spending
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Source: Treasury projections, International Report 2015.
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primary care and non-hospital interventions
Low and flat
Chart 11: Projected health spending per person, real terms
This signals wider purposeful shift away from hospital care to early intervention
■ Hospital and PHI funding increase only in line with population and CPI growth (CPI assumed to be < than premium ↑)
■ Medicare and pharmaceutical benefits increase in line with both CPI/population growth and non-demographic factors (in line with age based historical use patterns)
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Why are health costs rising like they are? .. mostly because of the things we do
■ Much talked about population ageing will fuel growth ■ Real health spending on 65+ to rise seven fold
■ Real health spending on 85+ to rise twelve fold
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■ But it is increasing demand for health services that really takes off
Chart 12: Australian Government spending on health: 2009-10 dollars
Source: Treasury projections, Intergenerational Report 2010
Most recent Treasury projections point to non-demographic factors driving health costs
■ Out to 2027-28 Treasury forecasts non-demographic factors will be the largest contributor (80%) to growth in real per person health spending
■ Ageing contributes just 10%■ Projected pharmaceutical benefits spending is four times
higher for 85+ years than the average person across all years
■ Projected public hospital spending is four times higher for 85+ years than the average person across all years
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It is our needs, wants and options that are changing
■ Higher incomes bring increased preferences to consume more and/or better health services
■ Technology change increases demand and price (eg. Keyhole surgery is a better/more expensive way of treating same condition
■ Changes in disease rates (esp. chronic disease) increases demand for treatments
■ Wages growth >CPI leads to price growth in labour intensive industries, including hospitals and medical services
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Chart 13: Components of change in health costs 2002-03 to 2032-33 ($bn of 2006-07 dollars)
DiseaseAgeing Population Disease
rateVolume per case
Treatment proportion
Price
Cardiovas. 6.39 3.71 -3.18 4.15 0.68 1.49Respiratory 0.49 -0.03 0.58 12.42 0.00 1.30Injuries 1.19 2.46 -1.66 4.69 0.00 1.03Dental -0.14 2.79 -0.11 6.05 0.00 0.44Mental -0.06 2.20 0.18 4.39 0.00 0.26Digestive 1.55 2.75 0.36 6.75 0.00 0.19Neurolog. 8.09 2.98 0.63 4.28 0.00 0.86
Total 37.75 34.38 -2.29 81.30 1.03 8.84
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■ Almost all of the top 7 diseases driving up costs are most affected by volume per case
■ Volume per case is more than double as costly as any other cost driver
Source: AIHW Disease expenditure projection model
Concluding thoughts..
■ Health spending pressure will make cost sharing inevitable, and price signals will increasingly be used to ration health services: look out for some rebalancing of the access vs quality compromise
■ Arguably unlikely to get additional Government sponsorship of PHI, policy momentum from sector likely to be to preserve the status quo
■ Can more be done to get more market signals into healthcare? Arguably yes, healthcare is very regulated but arguably mature enough to get equitable outcomes from greater market freedoms
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