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Medicare coverage is extended to organ donation.

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Rettig (2011) writes: "In 1972, through a last-minute provision of the Social Security Amendments, Medicare coverage was extended specifically to people with end-stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis or kidney transplantation—an entitlement that has had significant consequences."