Bob Kerrey
The Public Record
I share Speaker Gingrich's evaluation of this, and I actually would slightly disagree with him and maybe substantially disagree with him.
I happen to believe that it could be prevented, that a project that had that as an objective could, over a relatively short period of time, prevent the onset of the disease itself.
Unless it has not just authority, but funding, it is going to be exceptionally difficult to get the job done.
There is a case here to change the way we approach Alzheimer's disease, and it is a fairly simple case that it is a different kind of disease.
If you believe it is project based, I am quite enthusiastic that the recommendations that we are making in this report will produce real results.
The dependency is connected to the public programs that we have in place, Medicare and Medicaid.
We didn't fund that to go half way. We funded it as a project to go all the way to the Moon.
It is not just I have lost one activity of daily living. I have to be supervised.





