Alzheimer's cost the US $226 billion this year and its getting higher

Thomson Reuters U.S. health care costs rose last year by 5.3 percent — topping $3 trillion — and much attention has been given to the impact of soaring drug prices on Medicare, Medicaid and other government health care programs. But while it has received far less attention, Alzheimer’s disease also threatens to wreak havoc with the Medicare budget in the coming years as millions of aging Americans will require long and costly care. Hillary Rodham Clinton shifted the spotlight to the Alzhei...