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  • Aug 15, 2023

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    Aug 15, 2023

    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.

  • Aug 4, 2023

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    Aug 4, 2023

    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.

  • Aug 2, 2023

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    Aug 2, 2023

    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.

  • Jul 31, 2023

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    Jul 31, 2023

    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.

  • May 16, 2023

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    May 16, 2023

    Opinion: As we examine organ-transplant failures, let’s making 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.

  • May 10, 2023

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    May 10, 2023

    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.

  • Mar 31, 2023

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    Mar 31, 2023

    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.

  • Mar 24, 2023

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    Mar 24, 2023

    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.

  • Mar 21, 2023

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    Mar 21, 2023

    Kidney Transplant Collaborative Announces Major New Funding to Support Awareness, Advocacy and Projects to Increase Transplants Nationwide

    Washington, DC (March 21, 2023) The Kidney Transplant Collaborative (KTC) has received significant new funding that will empower the organization’s mission to reduce barriers in the transplant system with the…

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