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457. Is Dialysis a Test Case of Medicare for All?

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End Stage Renal Disease

N stage renal disease, or e s r d, is the inal and permanent stage of chronic kidney disease. By this point, the kidneys are no longer able to perform the vital function of filtering your blood. Left untreated, the condition is fatal. In the nineteen seventies, there were only around ten thousand americans on dialsis today,. that number is nearly five hundred thousand. Another two hundred thousand people live with a transplanted kidney....

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