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National attention is currently focused on the organization of medical care in the United States. Competing groups with different ideas about reorganizing health care advance views based on socioeconomic hypotheses and evaluations of health care systems in other countries. The participants in the debate about the reorganization of U.S. health care have taken little notice of the experience with existing health care systems organized by our government. The Medicare program that provides treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is 20 years old; recently, it has been the subject of extensive review and analysis¹. Over the past 20 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Medicare End Stage Renal Disease Program

Cost

Equity, Access, and Rationing

Lessons of the End Stage Renal Disease Program

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From the Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston City Hospital, and University Hospital, Boston.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Levinsky at the Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, 88 E. Newton St., Boston, MA 02118.

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