An aging population is going to cost the U.S. more — with a lot of that cost going to pay for the treatment and care of neurological diseases. And the country already forks over $800 billion a year for such conditions as Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, migraines, epilepsy and spinal cord injury.
A Huffington Post report says in order to understand how vast that number is, it’s more than $100 billion higher than the amount the U.S. spends on its entire military budget.
A study published in the journal Annals of Neurology says that $800 billion figure includes the total cost of the nine most common neurological diseases, but researchers also note that the total costs related to the more than 1,000 known diseases of the nervous system would be much higher.
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