RMI-4115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Disability Insurance, United States Census Bureau, Paraplegia
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What"s your most valuable asset: your ability to work and earn an income. In the first year following a paraplegia, living expenses average ,531 per person: the lifetime cost of caring for just one individual with autism can be as high as. In 2006, disability-associated health care expenditures accounted for 26. 7% of all health care expenditures for adults residing in the us and totaled . 8 billion, with state expenditures ranging from million in wyoming to . 1 billion in. Of the national total : medicare paid . 9 billion, medicaid paid . 1 billion, non-public sources paid . 8 billion. 1999 did so after being sidelined by an unexpected illness or injury. Definitions of disability: most common definitions: Inability to perform the material and substantial duties of your regular occupation. Inability to perform the material and substantial duties of your occupation, and are not engaged in any other occupation.