Alzheimer's Patients Fight For Quicker Medicare Coverage

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NPR reports on the struggle of Alzheimer's patients who don't have health insurance trying to find ways to pay for their care and lobby for greater protections for themselves.
"Alzheimer's is thought of as a disease of the elderly. But there are also people - maybe a couple hundred thousand or more - who have Alzheimer's in their 40s and 50s. People like Teresa Lambert, who is 54. Lambert has come to Washington to tell members of Congress how hard it is for people with early onset Alzheimer's to get health insurance; one-third of them have no health insurance at all." Lambert previously managed a chain of jewelry stores, but then "she started having trouble making sense of the revenue spreadsheets. She was in her late 40s - she can't remember the exact year - when she had to quit her job."…..

Alzheimer's Patients Fight For Quicker Medicare Coverage