In a First, Medicare Coverage Is Authorized for Alzheimer's

The Bush administration, in a major change, has authorized
Medicare coverage for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease,
which afflicts nearly four million Americans.
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Since I am a cynical person, I will now predict that a new, expensive treatment for Alzheimer's will be discovered and the gubmint will have to pay for it. If you were the pharmaceutical company, you'd be seeing an opportunity for easy money. It's much harder to remove something once it's in place. i.e. 'you don't hate old people, do you?'

Isn't Bush involved in pharmaceuticals some how? Maybe this is insurance for after we kick his ass out of office in 2004.