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> About 20% of the US Medicare budget of $776 Bln is used in supporting patients with kidney disease Wow, seems the government could save a ton of money long-t
by klipt 5y ago
> About 20% of the US Medicare budget of $776 Bln is used in supporting patients with kidney disease
Wow, seems the government could save a ton of money long-term by shoveling money into a moonshot to bring these artificial kidneys to viability: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28679840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28679840
- MattGaiser 5y agoI always knew that the US had universal health care for that one organ, but 81 billion dollars? [0] I am astonished that solving that isn't considered a high level financial emergency. There should be an X-Prize for that. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/kidneydisease/basics.html#:~:text=Top%20of%20Page-,Costs,the%20Medicare%20paid%20claims%20costs https://www.cdc.gov/kidneydisease/basics.html#:~:text=Top%20....
- klipt 5y agoSeems there is? https://www.kidneyx.org/ https://www.kidneyx.org/ But given the scale of spending, I wonder if the prize is big enough