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Contact: David Orenstein
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Brown University
Caption: Dialysis and drugs to control anemia became one of Medicare’s biggest costs after 1972, when the program expanded to care for anyone in the country who needed treatment, regardless of age.
Credit: Mike Cohea/Brown University
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