Access to Care for the Disabled
From The Incidental Economist by Austin Frakt:
Persons with disabilities report having much poorer access to care as those without disabilities. This is true even among those with health insurance. Those are some of the findings from the latest paper of which I am a coauthor with Lisa Iezzoni and Steve Pizer. It appears in the Disability and Health Journal.
As reported by people with disabilities, right?
It makes sense when you consider that patients with disabilities need more and specialized care.
People with disabilities tend to be on Medicaid or Medicare — which pay reimbursement rates below the market rates. People with disabilities often have numerous conditions for which they need care. I can understand how physicians might not want to treat complex patients that are — for the most part — money-losing to them.
A lot of people with disabilities are older Americans and, whether they are insured or uninsured, they are more likely to have a hard time getting meds and care when they need to. That’s probably part of it.
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