they allow assessing the implications of higher levels of medicalcare spending and higher governmental health expenditures on economic growth and identify what are the longrun determinants of medical spending growth for example a cge model could be used to estimate the extent to which increases in medical spending are driven by capital investment in health technologies the cms dynamic computable general equilibrium model represents the us economy as being composed of two markets health and nonhealth products for which aggregate demand and supply are modelled see annex