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by jnsie 1722 days ago
It's so badly needed. For some US-centric perspective: "the almost 750,000 people who live with kidney failure are 1% of the U.S. Medicare population but account for roughly 7% of the Medicare budget." [0] This is obviously just one part of the issue; I don't need to describe how attritional and life-altering chronic kidney disease and, subsequently, hemo-/peritoneal-dialysis are.

[0] https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney/need/statistics#:~:text=Costs,....