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

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The Dialysis Industry Is an Outlier Within the Health Care System

The dialysis industry is an outlier for a few reasons, the biggest one being its relationship with medicare. Meda care doesn't kick in until you turn sixty five. For seven years, the federal ment debated what to do about this new technology that saved lives but cost so much. Committees were set up to assess each patient's so called social worth. They were essentially choosing which patients would live and which would die....

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