health care spending

Alzheimer's disease accounts for more U.S. health care spending than any other disease, and that share will skyrocket as the nation's population ages, experts told members of a Senate health subcommittee on Feb. 26.

As Congress and the White House head into the next round of budget-deficit talks, a nonpartisan think tank says it has a better idea for controlling federal spending than cutting Medicare: rein in all health care spending, with the government leading the way.