Cover: Special Treatment — The Story of Medicare's ESRD Entitlement

Special Treatment — The Story of Medicare's ESRD Entitlement

Published in: The New England Journal of Medicine, v. 364, no. 7, Feb. 2011, p. 596-598

Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2011

by Richard A. Rettig

This review tells the story of how full coverage for treatment of chronic renal disease failure became enshrined in U.S. law.

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