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On the recordDecember 11, 2013
To your point, this $1.2 trillion in the year 2050 is coming from all the taxpayers in this country. Because these are Medicare patients. These are Medicaid patients. What would be really stunning is to understand that if we were able to delay the onset or progression of Alzheimer's by 6 years, it could produce an annual savings of $51 billion in 2015, $126 billion in 2025, and a whopping $444 billion--almost half a trillion dollars--in the year 2050, when that cost is going to skyrocket to $1.2 trillion.
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Democratic · California
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