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Kent Thiry and Davita's Run-Ins with The Law and the Media

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(see John Oliver and friends' take on kidney dialysis after the following)

!!!!!!!COMING SOON - AUGUST 2023!!!!!!!

By Author Tom Mueller: 

How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine

(from the author's website)

How did a lifesaving medical breakthrough become a for-profit enterprise that threatens the people it’s meant to save?

Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: a treatment that made kidney failure a manageable condition instead of a death sentence. And yet, in the hands of a predatory medical industry, this triumph led to skyrocketing costs and worsening care.

A gripping microcosm of American health care gone wrong, How to Make a Killing recounts how the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s—when transplants and early dialysis machines offered hope—gave way to anguished debates about the ethics of rationing (and profiting from) life-saving care. After Congress made renal disease the only “Medicare for All” condition, Big Dialysis proliferated, and the Hippocratic oath gave way to the profit motive.

A triumph of investigative research, Tom Mueller’s book features an unforgettable cast of characters: CEOs who dress as Musketeers to exhort more aggressive profit-seeking, nephrologist insiders who reveal the substandard care this causes, and heroic patients who risk their lives to reveal the truth.

Tom Mueller's books and articles

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(updated 2022)


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The following video and articles highlight what happens when a CEO can't tell the difference between a Taco Bell and a dialysis clinic (that observation was made by the comedian John Oliver):

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Dialysis: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The link provided below brings up a quick 24 minute video which provides an excellent introduction to the goings-on and history of kidney dialysis through the anesthesia of humor.  Kent Thiry and Davita play a prominent role in this clip about an area of healthcare that has been on the forefront of bad medicine.  It led one commentator to state: "We are paying the most to get the least." That seems to be American healthcare in a nutshell.":


                                                                                             Credit: John Oliver on Youtube

John Oliver and dialysis on Youtube

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The Strangest Show on Earth!

Former CEO Kent Thiry liked to call Davita a "Village" where he was the mayor.  But was it as Dr. Peter Laird of Lancaster CA called it: “the Village of the Damned”?  This hard-hitting article by Luc Hatlestad might help you decide:


                                                                                                                        credit: Eddie Guy and 5280 magazine

The Strangest Show on Earth!

Read more: Kent Thiry and Davita's Run-Ins with The Law and the Media

Dialysis Treatment - A Punch in the Kidneys

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Dialysis Treatment – A Punch in the Kidneys


April 2, 2008

Here’s a fact that may surprise you: kidney failure is the one disease that you can get coverage for – from the Federal Government - no matter what.

For this reason, after 30 months of treatment by a private insurer, dialysis facilities bill Medicare regardless of whether the patient is over 65 or financially stable. For those with kidney failure (End Stage Renal Disease) due to diabetes or other causes, having a machine take over the complicated (and therefore expensive) task of cleaning their blood several times a week allows them to live.

 

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MSP extension: For several years, various groups have been pushing for an extension of the Medicare Secondary Payment time frame from 30 months to 42 months, claiming in part it is a denial of patients rights to force them onto Medicare if they want to retain private insurance. Kidney Care Partners (KCP) - a coalition of drug manufacturers, dialysis providers, health care professionals and patient advocates formed in 2003 - are pushing for the Medicare Secondary Payment extension as well as other “quality of care improvements for renal disease.” (The House of Representatives approved the MSP extension in August 2007 when it voted to pass the Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act, which Bush later vetoed. See our piece on S-CHIP.)

Sounds good, yes?

Not so fast.

Read more: Dialysis Treatment - A Punch in the Kidneys

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