Now, we all know the shameful history of the Tuskegee experiments. So the community's level of distrust is natural.

Thank you very much, Dr. Collins, for a very lucid presentation.

Today's hearing is the sixth this subcommittee has held since 2000 focusing on Alzheimer's disease--the burden of this disease, the state of research, and the challenges faced by caregivers.

But I just want to get that out just so that people understand that and that, hopefully, the House won't repeat that again this year.

I've been preaching this for 25 years, that some of this health insurance money that we spend ought to go for research.

But none of it goes for research.

I'm retiring next year, by the way.

Those who did not graduate from high school were more than twice as likely as those who graduated from college to have dementia.

Those with household incomes of less than $15,000 were more than four times likely to have dementia as those with household income more than $75,000.

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