how much does Muscular distrophy cost america?
The total national cost for the three disease combined was conservatively estimated to be somewhere between $1.07 and $1.17 billion per year. The breakdown of which was $362 to $488 million for DMD, $448 million for MMD, and $256 to $433 million for ALS.Jun 5, 2017
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a cure for alzheimer’s disease would be a boon to the economy.
The estimated cost of caring for Americans with Alzheimer’s and other dementias is $277 billion this year — and that doesn’t include unpaid caregiving. Of that amount, $186 billion is the cost to Medicare and Medicaid, and $60 billion is for out-of-pocket costs, the report found.Mar 20, 2018
Jerry Lewis must be smiling from Heaven. He raised about
2 billion dollars for MDA over several decades.
The week he died in the hospital I knew his nurses and they all fell in love with him. All his nurses went to his funeral and that was not something they often did with their free time.
MDA didn’t treat Jerry very well and they lost a lot of supporters of MDA because these were Jerry’s Kids and he cared for them more than he did his own.