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TIL that Medicare fully covers dialysis (~80k/yr) and kidney transplants (~263k) but only covers three years of immunosuppressive drugs (~18k/yr). This creates a cycle in which patients can’t afford their medicine, the kidney fails, and the patient is put on dialysis - in need of another transplant.

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