Here’s Part 5 of our L.A. Taco Voter Guide, focusing on Prop 8, a ballot initiative that would limit the amount of money private dialysis companies can charge patients with kidney disease.
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]hree times a week for four hours at a time about 140,000 Californians with kidney disease have to sit in a medical clinic while a machine removes toxins from their blood, and then returns their own blood, cleaned of toxins, to them.
The procedure is called dialysis, and from 2009 to 2016 the number of Californians getting dialysis treatment rose by 46 percent. With it, the number of dialysis clinics in the state grew from 420 to 543.