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KTC Signs On To Support the Saving Organs One Flight at a Time Act
The Kidney Transplant Collaborative recently signed on to a letter supporting the Saving Organs One Flight at a Time Act.
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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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The Kidney Transplant Collaborative Shares Statement Regarding Grant Recipient Success Story
Washington, D.C. (July 31, 2023) – The Kidney Transplant Collaborative (KTC) today shared a statement regarding a historic success story from Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates (KODA), one of KTC’s inaugural grant recipients.
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Opinion: As we examine organ-transplant failures, let’s make living donations a key focus
Nearly 106,000 Americans are currently on the transplant waiting list. Sadly, 17 of them will die each
day waiting for the organ that could save their lives. -
Kidney Transplant Collaborative Economic Impact Study Shows Living Kidney Donor Support Act Would Triple Rate of Living Donors
Washington, DC (May 10, 2023) The Kidney Transplant Collaborative (KTC) today announced that the results from a recent economic impact study about the Living Kidney Donor Support Act indicate the legislation will triple the number of living donors and will save Medicare $16 billion over ten years once fully operational.
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Podcast: Saving a Life, Saving the World: Organ Transplant, Living Donation, and more!
KTC’s David Farber and Martha Gershun discuss the state of kidney transplants in America and organ
donation with Rabbi Yanklowitz on the Uri L’Tzedek: Orthodox Social Justice podcast. -
Opinion: I was able to donate a kidney to save a life, but I had to leave Kansas City to help
Nearly 106,000 Americans are currently on the transplant waiting list. Sadly, 17 of them will die each
day waiting for the organ that could save their lives.
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