Political Quotes

“Mr. Higgins, thank you so very much. Your points are absolutely on target. This little chart here points out much of what you and Ms. Waters were talking about, and that is the extraordinary expense. This is 2015. And we expect to spend $153 billion of Federal tax money, Medicare and Medicaid, on treating Alzheimer's. Way over, that little tiny purple spot, is the $566 million of research. It would be a little bigger if we were able to get that 300, but it is still going to pale in comparison to this. This is 261 times more money spent on treatment, which ultimately just enables the passage of time and leads to death because there is no effective treatment today. That is what we are spending on caring for people. That number down there, and the efforts and the bills that have been introduced and the Alzheimer's Foundation and others that are working on this have an opportunity to change this entire dynamic around because we can find the solution to this. I would like now to turn to my colleague, as part of what we often do here, we call it the ``East-West Show,'' my colleague from the great State of New York, Paul Tonko.”