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Article: American Kidney Fund Reaches Milestone in Maintaining Health Insurance Coverage for Indigent Kidney Patients.
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- PR Newswire
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- October 3, 2002
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ROCKVILLE, Md. -- This week, as the U.S. Census Bureau reported that the number of Americans who lack health insurance is increasing again after a two-year decline, the American Kidney Fund (AKF) marked a milestone in helping low-income kidney patients maintain their health insurance coverage.
AKF's Health Insurance Premium Program (HIPP) was established in 1997 to provide a safety net for 3,000 dialysis patients who were losing their health insurance due to a federal health reform law designed to provide "portability" for health insurance. Health insurance is widely viewed as the cornerstone of adequate medical care, and AKF understood the potentially ...