ALS Patient Behind Ice Bucket Craze Backs Benefits Change

BEVERLY, Mass. (AP) _ The Massachusetts man who inspired the Ice BucketChallenge that has raised more than $200 million for ALS research is backing aneffort in Congress to help others with the disease.
Pete Frates was joined at his home in Beverly on Saturday by Democratic U.S.Rep. Seth Moulton, a sponsor of the bill known as the ALS Disability InsuranceAccess Act.
Moulton says the legislation would speed up federal benefits for patients withamyotrophic lateral sclerosis by waiving the normal fi