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...kidneys fail. Congress expected to pay nearly $140 million for 5,000 to 7,000 dialysis patients. The first year's bill came to $241 million for 10,300 patients. In a decade, the number of patients has soared to 82,000?including dying cancer victims and nursing-home octogenarians???at a cost of $2 billion, which accounts for 10% of all Medicare payments for physicians...