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Dialysis vs. Kidney Transplant: Comparing Costs, Risks, and Benefits

Kidney disease is a life-altering condition that forces patients to make critical decisions regarding their treatment. The patient ultimately suffers from both conditions, whether it is dialysis or a kidney transplant. This raises the patient's curiosity about the potential risks associated with each condition and the differences in treatment costs between them. Each approach, Dialysis vs. Kidney Transplant has its own set of advantages, risks, and financial implications, making it crucial for patients and their families to weigh their choices carefully. In this blog, we will delve into the comparison between dialysis and kidney transplant, exploring their costs, risks, and benefits.

What is Dialysis vs. Kidney Transplant? 

Dialysis is a treatment that artificially removes waste products and excess fluids from the blood when the kidneys can no longer perform these functions. People with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) typically undergo it in a hospital or specialised clinic, and it can be a lifelong necessity.

On the other hand, a kidney transplant involves surgically placing a healthy kidney from a donor into a patient whose kidneys are no longer functioning. A successful transplant can restore nearly normal kidney function, eliminating the need for dialysis.

But which option is better? Is a kidney transplant better than dialysis in every situation, or are there scenarios where dialysis might be the more suitable choice?

Costs: Weighing the Financial Implications

Cost is one of the most important factors influencing the choice between dialysis and kidney transplant. Dialysis can be expensive, particularly over the long term. According to The National Kidney Foundation reports, the average annual cost of dialysis in the United States is approximately $90,000. Dialysis is a continuous treatment; these costs accumulate, potentially reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars over a patient's lifetime.

In contrast, the cost of a kidney transplant is front-loaded. The initial surgery, hospitalisation, and follow-up care can amount to approximately $250,000. However, anti-rejection medications, which can total around $10,000 to $20,000 annually, primarily contribute to ongoing costs after the transplant. Over time, these expenses may still be lower than the cumulative cost of long-term dialysis.

Risks: Balancing immediate and long-term health

When comparing dialysis vs kidney transplant pros and cons, risks play a pivotal role. Dialysis is generally considered a safer option with fewer immediate risks. However, long-term dialysis can lead to complications such as cardiovascular disease, infections, and reduced quality of life.

On the other hand, a kidney transplant comes with significant surgical risks, including infection, rejection of the donor kidney, and complications from anesthesia. The risk of death in the first year post-transplant is higher than for patients on dialysis. However, for many patients, the long-term benefits of a successful transplant—such as improved quality of life and longer survival—outweigh these initial risks.

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The cost of kidney dialysis in Noida may vary depending on factors such as hospital/consultation cost, diagnostic tests, type of room, type of dialysis, and medicines prescribed. Dialysis sessions may be scheduled once, twice, or more weekly, depending on the patient's condition. It is administered under the care of a Nephrologist. In Noida, the cost of kidney dialysis starts at 1500, while the average cost of dialysis is 3750, and it can go as high as 5000.

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Dialysis

You guys ever think about dialysis?

You guys ever think about Willem Kolff, who smuggled 800 Jewish people during WW2. Who in his spare time, while being watched by the Nazis, built a machine out of a bathtub and some sausage casing and spare parts from a car, a sewing machine, and an airplane. A machine that took the place of the human kidney. And it worked.

You guys ever think about how 20 years later on another continent that machine would change forever what we call medical ethics. How a group of 7- a doctor, a lawyer, a minister, a housewife, a union representative, a banker and a government official- had to make the awful decision of which 10 people got to use (at high cost!) the extremely limited number of machines- and who would die waiting.

You guys ever think about Shep Glazer, a traveling salesman with a wife and 2 children, who in 1971 nearly died on the US congress floor undergoing dialysis. Who explained that the treatments were bankrupting him. That money- and money alone- stood in the way of his life. How his pleading to be allowed to see his children grow up led to the universal coverage of ESRD in the United States- something it shares with no other condition.

You guys ever think of those things? Cause I do.

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Greedflation, but for prisoners

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Today in "Capitalists Hate Capitalism" news: The Appeal has published the first-ever survey of national prison commissary prices, revealing just how badly the prison profiteer system gouges American's all-time, world-record-beating prison population:

https://theappeal.org/locked-in-priced-out-how-much-prison-commissary-prices/

Like every aspect of the prison contracting system, prison commissaries – the stores where prisoners are able to buy food, sundries, toiletries and other items – are dominated by private equity funds that have bought out all the smaller players. Private equity deals always involve gigantic amounts of debt (typically, the first thing PE companies do after acquiring a company is to borrow heavily against it and then pay themselves a hefty dividend).

The need to service this debt drives PE companies to cut quality, squeeze suppliers, and raise prices. That's why PE loves to buy up the kinds of businesses you must spend your money at: dialysis clinics, long-term care facilities, funeral homes, and prison services.

Prisoners, after all, are a literal captive market. Unlike capitalist ventures, which involve the risk that a customer will take their business elsewhere, prison commissary providers have the most airtight of monopolies over prisoners' shopping.

Not that prisoners have a lot of money to spend. The 13th Amendment specifically allows for the enslavement of convicted criminals, and so even though many prisoners are subject to forced labor, they aren't necessarily paid for it:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch

Six states ban paying prisoners anything. North Carolina caps prisoners' pay at one dollar per day. Nationally, prisoners earn $0.52/hour, while producing $11b/year in goods and services:

https://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2024/0324bowman.html

So there's a double cruelty to prison commissary price-gouging. Prisoners earn far less than any other kind of worker, and they pay vastly inflated prices for the necessities of life. There's also a triple cruelty: prisoners' families – deprived of an incarcerated breadwinner's earnings – are called upon to make up the difference for jacked up commissary prices out of their own strained finances.

So what does prison profiteering look like, in dollars and sense? Here's the first-of-its-kind database tracking the costs of food, hygiene items and religious items in 46 states:

https://theappeal.org/commissary-database/

Prisoners rely heavily on commissaries for food. Prisons serve spoiled, inedible food, and often there isn't enough to go around – prisoners who rely on the food provided by their institutions literally starve. This is worst in prisons where private equity funds have taken over the cafeteria, which is inevitable accompanied by swingeing cuts to food quality and portions:

https://theappeal.org/prison-food-virginia-fluvanna-correctional-center/

So you have one private equity fund starving prisoners, and another that's gouging them on food. Or sometimes it's the same company. Keefe Group, owned by HIG Capital, provides commissaries to prisons whose cafeterias are managed by other HIG Capital portfolio companies like Trinity Services Group. HIG also owns the prison health-care company Wellpath – so if they give you food poisoning, they get paid twice.

Wellpath delivers "grossly inadequate healthcare":

https://theappeal.org/massachusetts-prisons-wellpath-dentures-teeth/

And Trinity serves "meager portions of inedible food":

https://theappeal.org/clayton-county-jail-sheriff-election/

When prison commissaries gouge on food, no part of the inventory is spared, even the cheapest items. In Florida, a packet of ramen costs $1.06, 300% more inside the prison than it does at the Target down the street:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24444312-fl_doc_combined_commissary_lists#document/p6/a2444049

America's prisoners aren't just hungry, they're also hot. The climate emergency is sending temperatures in America's largely un-air-conditioned prisons soaring to dangerous levels. Commissaries capitalize on this, too: an 8" fan costs $40 in Delaware's Sussex Correctional Institution. In Georgia, that fan goes for $32 (but prisoners are not paid for their labor in Georgia pens). And in scorching Texas, the commissary raised the price of water by 50% last summer:

https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2023-07-20/texas-charges-prisoners-50-more-for-water-for-as-heat-wave-continues

Toiletries are also sold at prices that would make an airport gift-shop blush. Need denture adhesive? That's $12.28 in an Idaho pen, triple the retail price. 15% of America's prisoners are over 55. The Keefe Group – sister company to the "grossly inadequate" healthcare company Wellpath – operates that commissary. In Oregon, the commissary charges a 200% markup on hearing-aid batteries. Vermont charges a 500% markup on reading glasses. Imagine spending decades in prison: toothless, blind, and deaf.

Then there's the religious items. Bibles and Christmas cards are surprisingly reasonable, but a Qaran will run you $26 in Vermont, where a Bible is a mere $4.55. Kufi caps – which cost $3 or less in the free world – go for $12 in Indiana prisons. A Virginia prisoner needs to work for 8 hours to earn enough to buy a commissary Ramadan card (you can buy a Christmas card after three hours' labor).

Prison price-gougers are finally facing a comeuppance. California's new BASIC Act caps prison commissary markups at 35% (California commissaries used to charge 63-200% markups):

https://theappeal.org/price-gouging-in-california-prisons-newsom-signature/

Last year, Nevada banned any markup on hygiene items:

https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023/Bill/10425/Overview

And prison tech monopolist Securus has been driven to the brink of bankruptcy, thanks to the activism of Worth Rises and its coalition partners:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/08/money-talks/

When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time. Prisons show us how businesses would treat us if they could get away with it.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/20/captive-market/#locked-in

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By Max Richtman

Common Dreams - Opinion

July 30, 2024

Even after nearly six decades of Medicare’s overall success, we must continually protect it from conservatives’ attempts to cut and privatize the program.

Before Medicare was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson 59 years ago today, nearly half of American seniors had no hospital insurance. Private insurance companies were reluctant to cover anyone over 65. Even fewer seniors had coverage for non-hospital services like doctor’s visits. Many of the elderly were forced to exhaust their retirement savings to pay for medical care; some fell into poverty because of it. All of that changed with Medicare.

In Medicare’s first year of coverage, poverty decreased by 66% among the senior population. From 1965, when Medicare was enacted, to 1994, life expectancy at age 65 increased nearly three full years. This was no coincidence. Access to Medicare coverage for those who were previously uninsured helped lift seniors out of poverty and extend their lives.

As with Social Security, workers would contribute with each paycheck toward their future Medicare benefits. Upon putting his signature on this new program, a keystone of the Great Society, President Johnson declared, “Every citizen will be able, in their productive years when they are earning, to insure themselves against the ravages of illness in old age.”

Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint for a second Trump presidency, would gut traditional Medicare by accelerating privatization and repealing drug price negotiation.

Medicare has been improved several times over the decades. In 1972, Americans with disabilities (under 65 years of age) became eligible for Medicare coverage—along with people suffering from chronic kidney disease needing dialysis or transplants. In 2003, prescription drug coverage was added to Medicare (though the program was prohibited from negotiating prices with drugmakers). The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 finally empowered Medicare to negotiate prices with Big Pharma—and lowered seniors’ costs by capping their out-of-pocket expenses for prescription drugs and insulin.

Nearly 60 years after it was enacted, Medicare is one of the most popular and efficient federal programs. Ninety-four percent of beneficiaries say they are “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with their quality of care. Unlike many other federal programs, Medicare spends less than 2% of its budget on administrative costs.

Medicare isn’t perfect. It should be expanded to cover dental, hearing, and vision care. More urgently, though, the privatized version of the program, Medicare Advantage (MA), is gobbling up a larger share of the program despite myriad problems, including MA insurers overbilling the government and denying care that’s always offered by traditional Medicare. The Biden-Harris administration has been working to hold those private plans more accountable, but much remains to be done to protect traditional Medicare from efforts toward privatization.

Even after 59 years of Medicare’s overall success, we must continually defend Medicare against conservatives’ attempts to cut and privatize the program. Our founder, Rep. James Roosevelt, Sr. (D-Calif.), son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, knew that Medicare (along with Social Security) would need continuous advocacy to withstand assaults from antagonistic political forces. That’s why the word “preserve” is in our organization’s name.

Many conservatives opposed Medicare from the start, labeling it “socialism” and “socialized medicine.” In 1962, Ronald Reagan warned that if Medicare were to be enacted, “One of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.”

Today, the onslaught continues. The House Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) 2025 budget proposes to cut Medicare by an estimated $1 trillion over the next decade. The RSC would replace Medicare’s current system with vouchers, and push seniors into private plans that can and do deny coverage. Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint for a second Trump presidency, would gut traditional Medicare by accelerating privatization and repealing drug price negotiation.

Democrats by and large support protecting and even expanding Medicare. President Joe Biden tried to add dental, vision, and hearing coverage in his Build Back Better Act, but encountered resistance from Republicans and centrist Democrats. It’s still a laudable goal.

Republicans, for the most part, advocate cutting Medicare benefits and privatization. We endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, because she knows the importance of Medicare to America’s seniors and people with disabilities—and has vowed to protect them. Former President Donald Trump, on the other hand, has been rhetorically all over the map on this topic, telling CNBC he is “open” to “cutting entitlements” but claiming to support Medicare. (His budgets as president called for billions of dollars in Medicare cuts.)

The 59th anniversary of Medicare is both an occasion for celebrating the program’s enormous successes over the past six decades—and a time to defend Medicare in the marbled halls of Washington, D.C., and at the ballot box this November.

Max Richtman is president and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. He is former staff director at the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging.

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I am a father of family of 11 people who were forced displaced from North of Gaza to south of Gaza (currently at Deir al-balah)

We need your help and support to cover the cost of basic life needs in Gaza, to cover my medical bills and transportation to and from hospital where I go 2-times a week for Kidney dialysis.

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Stand with us in these difficult moments in our lives

This is me, Mohammed from Gaza 🍉🇵🇸🍉

I'd really appreciate it if you would share my donation campaign in your blog.

I am a father of family of 11 people who were forced displaced from North of Gaza to south of Gaza (currently at Deir al-balah)

We need your help and support to cover the cost of basic life needs in Gaza, to cover my medical bills and transportation to and from hospital where I go 2-times a week for Kidney dialysis.

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Stand with us in these difficult moments in our lives

This is me, Mohammed from Gaza 🍉🇵🇸🍉

I'd really appreciate it if you would share my donation campaign in your blog.

I am a father of family of 11 people who were forced displaced from North of Gaza to south of Gaza (currently at Deir al-balah)

We need your help and support to cover the cost of basic life needs in Gaza, to cover my medical bills and transportation to and from hospital where I go 2-times a week for Kidney dialysis.

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