Hillary Clinton proposes $2 billion to fight Alzheimers and give tax credit to family caregivers

On Tuesday, while campaigning in Iowa, Hillary Clinton proposed a plan that is bound to positively hit home with many Americans.  Clinton will seek a two billion dollar annual research initiative to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease, the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Monica Alba with NBC News reports:

"For me, the bottom line is if we're the kind of nation that cares for citizens and supports families," Clinton said, "then we've got work to do and we need to do it better when it comes to diseases like Alzheimer's." 

Through tax reform, Clinton proposes to spend four times the amount currently spent on Alzheimer's research.  In reaching out to families, Clinton is also proposing an annual $6000 tax credit for caregivers. 

"The lost wages and the work that is sometimes given up are costing families, especially women who make up the majority of both paid and unpaid caregivers," she said in a town hall in Clinton. 

The former secretary of state is receiving some bipartisan support for this proposal, and is the first presidential candidate to propose a pro-active plan to fight the disease. As a New York senator, Clinton co-chaired a congressional task force on Alzheimer's.  Read Monica Alba’s full story at NBCNews.com.

To learn more about this disease, visit Alzheimers.org (www.alz.org/...) and The National Institute on Aging.