24% of the entire US federal budget every year is dedicated SOLELY to dialysis[1] This seemed implausible and indeed the linked page doesn't say that. It says

24% of the entire US federal budget every year is dedicated SOLELY to dialysis[1] This seemed implausible and indeed the linked page doesn't say that. It says that 24% of Medicare spending goes to patients with kidney disease. Medicare is 14% of the Federal budget: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-does-the-government-spend-on-medicare/ https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-does-the-government-s... That's about 3.3% of the Federal budget going to patients with kidney disease. Since kidney disease is comorbid with other health problems it's not clear how much of that spending is for dialysis, though it is still a lot of spending on people with kidney disease.