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The World Alzheimer Report 2010 found that the cost of Alzheimer's and related dementias is about 1 percent of the world's gross domestic product and that if dementia care were a country, it would be the world's 18th largest economy, ranking between Turkey and Indonesia.

So you see, women over age 50 are substantially less likely to receive an "intervention" -- that's how Dr. Emanuel refers to medical care -- than those in the 40 - 50 age bracket. Fewer intenventions means less money spent. The patients, like the customers of that trucking company, be damned.

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of the chief of staff and a key advisor to President Obama is the author of the "Complete Lives System" which has become an issue in the discussion of the Democrats' health care reform. It has been interpreted as refusing to allocate medical resources to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled.