To: Congressional Kidney Caucus
We, the undersigned, ask the Congressional Kidney Caucus to advocate for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to increase the number of routinely reimbursed hemodialysis treatments from three per week (156/year) to every other day (183/year).
We are people on dialysis, care partners, health professionals, family, and friends. Dialysis is not the end of life, but can and should be a new beginning. We believe that so-called “adequate dialysis” (three short treatments per week) merely allows people who need dialysis to hang onto life unproductively--in essence, many are prevented from living the life they were meant to live. This need not be the case! Research has proven that more treatments mean healthier lives, fewer hospitalizations, longer survival, increased productivity, and less overall cost to the healthcare system for people on dialysis.
To read more, see the current listing of signatures and sign yourself go to:
http://www.petitiononline.com/eodD0903/petition.html 
