It's been going on for years: patients waiting for years for a life-saving kidney donation, and sometimes dying as they waiting in those long, long lines. Kidney patients are most prominent among those waiting in line, but that's only because those waiting for other kinds of organs die so quickly that they can't wait in any line at all.
Johns Hopkins University economist Steve Hanke at Forbes points out a very little-reported story involving President Trump, who 50% by 2030, which is the aim. Hanke writes:
......The regulations that President Trump voted to get rid of, which Hanke says will help the most, are those that prohibited any possible payment for lost wages or child care costs, of those who donate organs to others...............The regulations that President Trump voted to get rid of, which Hanke says will help the most, are those that prohibited any possible payment for lost wages or child care costs, of those who donate organs to others. That's one thing that has made it so hard for the supply of kidneys and other organs to reach the people who need them.
For a living donor, donating the kidney itself is not the problem — anyone who does that will live a perfectly normal life afterward while at the same time giving life itself to a second human being. Hanke notes that the actual supply is already there. But it's a tough — and for some, impossible — thing to do when the law forbids even insurance companies from covering your legitimate expenses, which pile up fast and go high. And there aren't any tax breaks, either Hanke notes that the long lines and dying patients have been going on a long time, since the 1980s......
Any president could have fixed this, but none did. Until there was Trump........To Read More...
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