World Kidney Day: How YOU can help!
It is World Kidney Day: Please contact your senator or representative to co-sponsor.....
and reintroduce the Living Donor Protection Act:
LIVING DONOR PROTECTION ACT
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) supports the Living Donor Protection Act (H.R. 5263)* introduced by Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), along with Representative Michael Burgess, MD (R-TX) to promote organ donation and protect the rights of living donors. This bill prohibits insurance companies from denying or limiting life, disability and long term care insurance and from charging higher premiums to living organ donors. The bill also clarifies that living organ donors may use time granted through the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to recover from transplant surgery and finally, the bill directs the department of Health and Human Services to add information on these new protections to its materials to encourage more Americans to consider living donation.
*S.2584 in the Senate, co-sponsors Mark Kirk and Kristen Gillibrand
More about the LDPA: http://waitlistzero.org/take-action/
Thank you!
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Living donors offer the best chance of a successful transplant, as you of course know. 
