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New York Times Letter to the Editor
To the Editor:Re: “Donor Organs Are Too Rare. We Need a New Definition of Death” (Opinion, July 30) Redefining death is a critical step in addressing the nation’s transplantcrisis, but it alone won’t solve the country’s kidney shortage. To do that, we must adopt policies to ethically and sustainably increase living kidney donations. Regulators are […]
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Saving Lives While Saving Money
The Living Kidney Donor Support Act would benefit tens of thousands of Americans and save billions of tax dollars. The United States does not have enough transplant kidneys to provide one to each person suffering from end‐stage kidney disease who would benefit from a transplant.
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The high out-of-pocket cost of donating a kidney
“All of your medical and surgical expenses will be paid by your recipient’s insurance,” the nurse coordinator at the Mayo Clinic told me. Naïve, I nodded into the phone at this reassurance. I had already worked with her to have several vials of my blood shipped from my home in Kansas City to Mayo in Rochester, Minnesota, all at no cost to me. Now she was calling to tell me the astounding news: Tests on that blood had revealed I was a perfect match for Deb Porter Gill, a kidney patient I had read about in the newspaper two months before.
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A Living Kidney Donor Saved My Father’s Life — Others Aren’t So Fortunate
When a beloved character in a movie needs a life-saving organ transplant, it almost always magically works out for a happy ending. My father’s story went this way, and I am forever thankful for it. But this is not the case for most Americans currently awaiting an organ transplant. And unless we fix our country’s broken transplant system, it will continue to be the norm.
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