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Back here with my special guests, david and susan axelrod. susan, how prevalent is epilepsy in america at the moment? >> you know, epilepsy affects 1% to 2% of the population worldwide, so in a world that's 50 million, in this country it's about 3 million. >> a lot of people. >> a lot of people. it's one of the most common neurological diseases. >> and is that what we know? a lot of people, because of the stigma that goes with epilepsy, may not say anything. >> exactly. and there are some types difficult to diagnose. absonces, until they do an eeg, they may not know these are actually seizures...

Back here with my special guests, david and susan axelrod. susan, how prevalent is epilepsy in america at the moment? >> you know, epilepsy affects 1% to 2% of the population worldwide, so in a world that's 50 million, in this country it's about 3 million. >> a lot of people. >> a lot of people. it's one of the most common neurological diseases. >> and is that what we know? a lot of people, because of the stigma that goes with epilepsy, may not say anything. >> exactly. and there are some types difficult to diagnose. absonces, until they do an eeg, they may not know these are actually seizures...

Difficult to diagnose. absonces, until they do an eeg, they may not know these are actually seizures, sometimes hundreds a day, disrupting a child's learning. >> david, when this hit you as a family, it's obviously very expensive to treat epilepsy. what kind of impacts did it have financially? >> there are all impacts on a family. financially, i was a young reporter when lauren got sick, and we had an hmo. what we discovered was that was great policy as long as you didn't get sick, and they didn't cover much of what she needed, especially like her medications, which were like $8,000 a year, $1...

thing. >> perhaps his closest white house adviser. >> what we need to do is focus on what's good for the country, what's good for the american people, and move forward. >> now david axelrod has another cause with his wife susan, fighting to find the cure of epilepsy. i'll talk to david and susan axelrod. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. a man who heads the international monetary fund, the man who was a likely candidate for president of france, is tonight on suicide watch at rikers island after being charged with sexually assaulting a maid at his new york city hotel. me...

then my interview with one of the sharpest political minds out there, the man who knows president obama better than just about anybody else, david axelrod. >> we are a tight group. we are all committed to the same thing. >> perhaps his closest white house adviser. >> what we need to do is focus on what's good for the country, what's good for the american people, and move forward. >> now david axelrod has another cause with his wife susan, fighting to find the cure of epilepsy. i'll talk to david and susan axelrod. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. a man who heads the in...