Special Treatment — The Story of Medicare's ESRD Entitlement

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In October 1972, Medicare, which had been enacted for the elderly in 1965, was extended to the disabled by the Social Security Amendments. One provision, added at the last minute, declared that persons with chronic renal disease who required hemodialysis or kidney transplantation “shall be deemed to be disabled” for purposes of Medicare Parts A and B. To be eligible for this Medicare coverage, patients had to have paid into the system long enough to be “fully or currently insured” under Social Security or be the spouse or dependent child of someone who was. This near-universal Medicare entitlement for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) has now been in effect for nearly 40 years.

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