Help Pass the End Kidney Deaths Act!
Should we offer a tax credit to encourage more people to donate kidneys, knowing only 2% complete the process, or let Americans continue to die from kidney failure due to the kidney shortage?
Over 90,000 Americans are currently on the kidney transplant waitlist.
Without action, around half will survive long enough to receive a life-saving kidney transplant. These patients aren't dying from kidney disease itself but from the prolonged and often fatal wait for a transplant.
The End Kidney Deaths Act offers a solution.
From 2010 to 2021, nearly 100,000 Americans died waiting for a kidney. Will we allow history to repeat itself—or will we take action to ensure up to 100,000 Americans survive and thrive with a new kidney?
Passing the End Kidney Deaths Act won’t just save lives—it will save taxpayers up to $37 billion over the next decade. Let's act now.
Click HERE to tell your leaders to vote YES on the End Kidney Deaths Act.
98% of donors said they would have been as likely or even likelier to donate had they received a tax credit (NKDO Survey, 2024).
Check out the news stories about the EKDA. For media inquiries, contact ElainePerlman@modifynota.org Press Kit Link here.
The medical system, policy makers, and the major kidney organizations have not yet developed a way to save the lives of the 9,000 Americans who needlessly suffer and die on the kidney waitlist every single year.
Our community has now stepped in to save those lives. We developed the End Kidney Deaths Act. Our movement is primarily comprised of donors and patients (people with skin in the game), 25 organ donation organizations, and top doctors around the country. We all know the kidney shortage is a solvable problem.
Donors are life-savers who know kidney donation is a WHOLE LOT of work. Donation is time consuming, stressful and painful work. And it’s morally important to pay people for difficult work. We know that providing a tax credit will make it easier for Americans to say yes to saving the life of a stranger. 98% of kidney donors said they would have been as likely or even likelier to donate had they received a tax credit. Donors are experts in the donor experience.
Here’s the reality: we already give tax credits to people who own racehorses. Each kidney donors’ willingness to donate saves the life of one person and saves the taxpayer over $500,000.
It’s long past time to honor the courage and generosity of kidney donors while putting an end to the preventable kidney deaths of 25 Americans each day.
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“It’s long past time to modify the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act.”
Professor Alvin Roth, Nobel Laureate
Encourage organ donation through tax credits
The End Kidney Deaths Act is a ten year pilot program to provide to living kidney donors who give kidneys to strangers on the kidney waitlist, a refundable tax credit of $10,000 per year for five years ($50,000 total). Click here to read the legislative text.
Kidney donation is safe. Kidney donation is emotionally rewarding.
95% of surveyed donors report they would make the same decision again, largely because of the profound emotional reward of saving a life.
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The future of organ transplantation holds incredible promise, with advancements like xenotransplantation and artificial kidneys on the horizon.
In the meantime, the End Kidney Deaths Act will save lives by providing up to 10,000 Americans with life-saving kidney transplants each year over the next decade.
Right now, approximately 10,000 eligible patients die annually—not because a transplant wasn’t possible, but because the wait was too long.
It’s time to act and ensure these lives are no longer lost to a preventable shortage. The time for change is now.