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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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From: TimF	4/25/2014 12:05:44 PM
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How Congress Can Fight the Alzheimer's Epidemic Delaying the disease's onset by five years would mean billions in health-care savings. By Kenneth Davis April 21, 2014 7:09 p.m. ET Not many people know it, but one of the best ways to curb future health-care spending is with a drug that slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's affects more than five million seniors today and last year cost Medicare and Medicaid almost $150 billion. By 2050, that number rises to 15 million cognitively impaired Americans whose care will cost more than $600 billion. According to a recent Alzheimer's Association study, women are twice as likely to get the disease than they are to get breast cancer... online.wsj.com

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