Organ transplants

Ilya Somin | 9.21.2024 11:17 PM

The bipartisan End Kidney Deaths Act (EKDA) is making some progress in Congress. Dylan Matthews of Vox has a helpful summary of the legislation and its importance:

A few months ago, I wrote about a proposal called the End Kidney Deaths Act, which seeks to make sure that every one of the more than 135,000 Americans who get diagnosed with kidney failure every year has access to a kidney transplant.

Its method is simple: a federal tax credit worth $10,000 a year for five years, paid to anyone who donates a kidney to a stranger. It's the kind of thing that would've helped a lot when I donated a kidney back in 2016. Elaine Perlman, a fellow kidney donor who leads the Coalition to Modify NOTA, which is advocating for the act, estimates the measure will save 100,000 lives over the first decade it's enacted, based on conversations with transplant centers on how many surgeries they can........

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