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Bob Dority of Aurora writes:

Stop proposed cuts to Medicare for dialysis.
As an administrator for a dialysis clinic, I have the privilege to serve 60 patients in my community. In the Unites States there are more than 350,000 citizens who require dialysis to sustain life and the majority of these patients rely on the Medicare dialysis benefit to pay for this service.
As Rocky Mountain News readers may know, dialysis is a blood-cleansing process necessary for those who have lost kidney function. The care we provide is not optional — short of a kidney transplant, dialysis treatments are, simply put, life-saving.
There is a debate in Washington, D.C., that will cut future Medicare payments for these life-saving treatments. I find it alarming (as a caregiver and citizen) that our elected officials are threatening to cut this Medicare benefit for the most vulnerable of our community, especially when many policy-makers know that this program is already underfunded as it stands.
Clearly, our elected officials in Washington must ensure that this cut is reversed. It is necessary to ensure quality care for the citizens in our community and our country who rely on dialysis for quality of care and quality of life.

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Just wait until HillaryCare. Medicare is a prototype of what she wishes for everyone except the elites. Good Luck Maynard.

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