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.
It is often attributed to the U.S. decision to mandate Medicare coverage for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the 1970s: because the cost-effectiveness ratio for dialysis at the time was roughly $50,000 per QALY, the government's decision arguably endorsed that cutoff point implicitly.he fact that the $50,000-per-QALY yardstick has persisted attests to the medical community's need for a value threshold and to the advantages enjoyed by incumbents.