High Cost Getting Sick. Arcadia, Calif:-John Van Der Sande, a kidney patient who came to the United States from the Netherlands 13 years ago, undergoes treatment at home on his $5,000 kidney machine, in this Jan. 1. 1970 photo from file. Because of the high cost of medical treatment in this country, Van Der Sande planned to return to Holland where socialized medicine would pay the expenses.

United Press International · [ca. April 1971]

[Information from item housing] Kidney...Transplant, 7 C.