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THE GREAT SOCIAL EXPERIMENT PODCAST DOCUMENTARY SERIES

1954
The First Transplant

1961
The Admissions and Policies Committee is formed in Seattle.

1965
Medicare becomes law.

1972
The US Government covers ESRD (kidney failure).

1960
Dr. Belding Scribner makes outpatient hemodialysis possible.

1990s
Academic institutions enter into joint ventures with dialysis corporations.

2000-2001
Lance at the Cleveland Clinic with Sheikh Zayed.

2000s
Dialysis corporations continue consolidating industry, increasing joint ventures.

2007
Medicare changes how it evaluates transplant centers.

2014
The Organ Allocation System is changed to protect minorities.

2014-2019
The unintended consequences of changing the Organ Allocation System.

2019
President Trump signs an executive order to improve kidney care in the USA.

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1964
"Eugene" pleads his case.

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