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GAO Highlights 2022: Rare Diseases

By definition, few people have any specific rare disease. But there are many different rare diseases—about 7,000—and as a result, an estimated 30 million people in the United States have one or more of them.

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The National Economic Burden of Rare Disease Study – 2021

This study aims to provide the most comprehensive assessment of the total burden of RD to date, including filling the knowledge gap in some of the less well-understood cost components (such as productivity loss in both the labor market as well as in social life) and caregiver economic burden.