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The U.S. End-Stage Renal Disease program is extraordinary in the history of American medicine. In 1972, Congress extended Medicare coverage to people with kidney failure requiring dialysis or transplantation, regardless of age, creating a uniquely broad federal entitlement for treatment of a specific chronic disease with no cure.
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