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Alzheimer's is the most expensive disease in America. Over the next 40 years, caring for people with Alzheimer's disease will cost our country $20 trillion, with nearly 60 percent of that borne by Medicare. If we had a treatment that delayed onset of Alzheimer's by just five years, Medicare spending would be reduced on those with the disease by 45 percent in 2050. Coming on the heels of an unprecedented $122 million increase for Alzheimer's research, education, outreach and caregiver support in early 2014, Congress added an additional $25 million for research in the FY2015 budget. Still, a chronic underinvestment in Alzheimer's research persists. For every $100 that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spends on Alzheimer's research, Medicare and Medicaid spend $26,500 caring for those with the disease.
But your elected representatives in Washington have the power to help change that.
Tell them that you are counting on them to throw their full support behind making Alzheimer's a top priority on Capitol Hill.
Congress must act now on Alzheimer's!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/288/152/442/
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