All urging Congress to save 10,000 lives & $4 billion in taxes every year
Kidney donors are leading this movement to finally end the kidney shortage.
This is what good policy looks like: saving lives and protecting taxpayer dollars.
Please join us in asking Congress to PASS the End Kidney Deaths Act
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Every year of delay costs 10,000 lives.
The Facts
Living kidney donation is already among the most tightly regulated medical procedures in the country. Only about 2 percent of willing donors are approved and ultimately donate. Individuals with addiction risks, medical instability, or signs of coercion are screened out. The End Kidney Deaths Act does not change these safety rules. It simply removes financial barriers for people who already qualify.
More than 800,000 Americans are living with kidney failure. Twenty-five people die every day waiting for a transplant.
Dialysis costs taxpayers $50 billion each year, about 1 percent of all federal spending.
Questions? email: ElainePerlman@modifynota.org
The End Kidney Deaths Act (H.R. 2687/ EKDA) is a ten year pilot program to provide a refundable tax credit of $10,000 per year for five years ($50,000 total) to living kidney donors who donate a kidney to a stranger, which will go to those who have been waiting longest on the kidney waitlist.
This will save up to 100,000 American lives & $40 billion in taxes.
Only one in a million Americans donates a kidney to a stranger annually.
Living kidney donors, on average, live longer than the general population.
Every year, ten thousand Americans die while waiting for a kidney transplant.
It doesn’t have to be this way. The End Kidney Deaths Act (H.R. 2687) offers a bold, compassionate solution to save lives and end the kidney shortage in the United States.
We are a national movement founded by kidney donors, including recipients, dialysis patients, doctors, nurses, researchers, and advocates working to modernize outdated federal laws that are blocking access to life-saving transplants. Our goal is simple and urgent: ensure that no one in America dies while waiting for a kidney.
This reform will:
Save up to 10,000 lives every year
Cut Medicare spending by up to $4 billion annually by replacing costly dialysis with successful kidney transplants
Why We Need Change Now
Right now, more than 90,000 Americans are on the kidney transplant waitlist. Half of them will die before they get a transplant. Deceased donation alone cannot meet this need. We must increase the number of living donors and that means making donation possible for more people.
Kidney donation is safe.
Living kidney donation already requires extensive medical, psychological, and social screening, so only healthy people with strong support systems qualify about 2 percent of those who step forward.
How You Can Help
This is a historic moment. The End Kidney Deaths Act is gaining momentum in Congress, but we need your voice to keep the pressure on. You can:
Join our advocacy team by clicking here! We meeting monthly, write op-eds, and take action to persuade Congress to vote YES on the End Kidney Deaths Act.
Email and call your members of Congress.
Take Action Today
Be part of a movement that is saving lives.
Together, we can live in a country where no one dies waiting for a kidney.