High-res publicradiointernational: Life-saving dialysis is rationed in places like South Africa, forcing doctors and health care officials to make uncomfortable choices about who lives and who dies. The story is explored in the new Rationing Health series from PRI’s The World. Read this. This quote from the first part in the series:  Back in the 1960s, U.S. health professionals quietly rationed dialysis—much as South Africans do today. But Americans were so outraged when they learned about rationing based on perceived social worth that Congress eventually passed legislation that now provides dialysis through Medicare for patients of any age. It’s a massive program that costs US taxpayers around $20 billion a year. struck me, because although $20 billion/year seems like a lot of money, the alternative, denying lifesaving care to a significant number of citizens, seems to be a higher cost still.  Really nice work on this; check the whole thing out here.

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Life-saving dialysis is rationed in places like South Africa, forcing doctors and health care officials to make uncomfortable choices about who lives and who dies.

The story is explored in the new Rationing Health series from PRI’s The World.

Read this. This quote from the first part in the series: 

Back in the 1960s, U.S. health professionals quietly rationed dialysis—much as South Africans do today. But Americans were so outraged when they learned about rationing based on perceived social worth that Congress eventually passed legislation that now provides dialysis through Medicare for patients of any age. It’s a massive program that costs US taxpayers around $20 billion a year.

struck me, because although $20 billion/year seems like a lot of money, the alternative, denying lifesaving care to a significant number of citizens, seems to be a higher cost still. 

Really nice work on this; check the whole thing out here.

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