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

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Is It a Loophole in the Affordable Care Act?

The high cost of dialysis was the whole reason that meda cary universally covers it in the first place. A patient with nstage renal disease could buy private insurance much cheaper than they would have been able to otherwise. Medic care only pays eighty per cent of a patient's cost so if a patient ends up in the hospital, they are on the hook for some per centage, twenty per cent of those costs....

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