GAO 04 450 Medicare Dialysis Facilities Beneficiary Access Stable Gao Form

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hello this is dr. Eric Bricker and thank you for watching a healthcare Z today we're going to be discussing dialysis and the state of California now this story is like a soap opera it has twists and turns and more twists and turns and hold on to your hats because we're going for a ride okay so as many of you know the dialysis business is heavily dominated in America by two companies divita and Versailles and they're both publicly traded divita is an American company and facility is actually a German company now they between the two of them have 4900 dialysis centers in America which is 70% of the dialysis market in America they dialyze about 400,000 Americans a year okay what does this have to do with the state of California last November the states of count the residents of California voted for what's called proposition 8 which was to a certain extent brought about by the SEIU so the Service Employees International Union because they wanted to unionize the workers in dialysis centers