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Re:Why kidney failure led me to found an Health Tech Startup by klipt on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:55PM (#28795222)
> About 20% of the US Medicare budget of $776 Bln is used in supporting patients with kidney disease

Wow, seems the government could save a ton of money long-term by shoveling money into a moonshot to bring these artificial kidneys to viability: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28679840

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Re:Why kidney failure led me to found an Health Tech Startup by MattGaiser on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:07PM (#28795303)
I always knew that the US had universal health care for that one organ, but 81 billion dollars? [0] I am astonished that solving that isn't considered a high level financial emergency. There should be an X-Prize for that.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/kidneydisease/basics.html#:~:text=Top%20....

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Re:Why kidney failure led me to found an Health Tech Startup by klipt on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:27PM (#28795426)
Seems there is? https://www.kidneyx.org/

But given the scale of spending, I wonder if the prize is big enough

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