National Historical Park Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit Seattle, WA The Seattle unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park preserves the story of the stampede to the Yukon gold fields and Seattle's crucial role in this event. The headlines of a Seattle newspaper on July 17, 1897, Gold! Gold! Gold!
In 1972, Republicans Voted For A National Healthcare Plan For Kidney Patients. What Changed? Did you know in 1972, a government-run national health care program was established through Medicare to take care of Americans who had end-stage renal disease, even paying for transplants? And did you know Republicans supported it? I was astounded, reading Jennifer Nix's I Love My Socialist Kidney in Salon.
Total per person per year outpatient expenditures in the prevalent dialysis population do not vary widely by race. In 2010, for example, costs were $30,106 for white patients, $31,651 for blacks/African Americans, and $29,834 for patients of other races.igure 11.2 Costs of the Medicare &ESRD programs. Total Medicare costs rose 6.5 percent in 2010, to $523 billion; costs for ESRD increased 8.0 percent, to $33 billion, accounting for 6.3 percent of the Medicare budget.