Impact of Employment on the Health Status and Health Care Costs of Working-age People with Disabilities.

摘要

Reducing health care spending is a national priority. As of 2013, health care spending represented over 17% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), with a disproportionate amount of that spending going towards adults with disabilities. In fact, on a per-capita basis, expenditures for people with disabilities are over four times higher than those for their counterparts without disabilities. This leads them to account for 27- 37% of total health expenditures, which are largely borne by the public sector, especially Medicaid and Medicare.