The dialysis industry just set a campaign spending record to fight California limits on pricing

John Oliver on dialysis:

“… in 1972 though something amazing happened Richard Nixon yes Richard Nixon signed a bill into law which said that the government would pay for dialysis for anyone who needed it which is really incredible essentially we have universal health care in this country for one organ in the body it’s like your kidneys and only your kidneys are Canadian …”

“… treating end-stage kidney disease takes up nearly 1% of the entire federal budget …”

Update: split paragraph in two.

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