There is an opportunity for the OECD to draw from this comparative analysis to develop and implement an international decision-support platform for health expenditure forecasting. Benefiting from the lessons learned from model development in member countries, and building from OECD experience in model development, including the recent CDP model that supported the Fit not Fat report, this platform could be designed to address pressing policy questions and to provide a tool for testing the impact of reforms and comparing results. Critical Review of Stochastic Simulation Literature and Applications for Health Actuaries. New Considerations on the Empirical Analysis of Health Expenditures in Canada: 1966-1998. Health Canada Working Paper 02-06. Ottawa: Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.