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

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The American Kidney Fund and Profit Laundering

In two thousand fourteen, devida agreed to pay three hundred fifty million dollars claims that it had provided illegal kickbacks to doctors. In two thousand fifteen, the company agreed to pay four hundred fifty million to settle allegations atit unnecessarily disposed of drugs and then builled the federal government for that waste. So from the outside, what are we supposed to think when we read about the american kidney fund and what sounds like profit laundering? Are we supposed to think that your firm has gotten religion and turned a new leaf? It's hard for me to answer that as a member of the organization because those occurred when i was a physician in practice....

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