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

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Is Devida Trying to Dissuade Patients From Getting Dialysis?

Not every patient with kidney failure is medically qualified to get on a transplant weight list. It's also possible that as the patient population becomes sicker, the share of qualified patients may fall. A 9 per cent drop in patients getting on a transplantslist after a clinic was acquired concerned mc davit and he found it fit a larger pattern. He has seen a number of interviews where representatives of devid and frazenius actively tell patients not to seek out a transplant....

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