Than 226 billion a year, including 153 billion in costs to medicare and medicaid. These costs will skyrocket as the baby boom generation ages. Already our nations most costly disease, alzheimers is projected to cost more than 1. 1 2050 if nothing is done to change its current trajectory. Alzheimers is also one of our nations leading causes of death. The cdc lists alzheimers as the sixth leading cause of death overall, and the fifth leading cause of death for those 65 and older. Other estimates put the mortality rate much higher at number three, right behind cancer and Heart Disease. Moreover and most frustrating alzheimers is the only one of our nations deadliest diseases without an effective means of prevention, treatment or a cure. It is now estimated that nearly 1 in 2 of the baby boomers reaching age 85 will develop alzheimers. As a consequence, chances are that the members of my generation will either be spending our golden years with alzheimers, or caring for someone who has it.
Do a Night Mission in syria or iraq, they come under the cover of darkness or get actionable intelligence does that two star have the ableility to execute that kind of a mission . Being cautious about operational security, what i would say congressman is that the chain of command has been empowered by the chairman to make the appropriate recommendations to carry out the strategy. So, when secretary kerry was here, he, one of my colleagues, mr. Grayson, was trying to interpret whether or not the authorization included offensive operations. The secretarys initial response indicated this it did not authorize offenseive operations. With my question clarifying that he was not referring to kinetic air strikes, but the one thing that was left unanswered from that back and forth due to a lack of time was whether or not the aught rithorization allows for the use of u. S. Special Operations Forces to be able to conduct that kind of a mission. Does the authorization for the use of military force,