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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Internet Links => Topic started by: Rerun on March 05, 2015, 10:00:38 AM

Title: The Cost of Generosity.
Post by: Rerun on March 05, 2015, 10:00:38 AM

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/health-care/cost-generosity

Title: Re: The Cost of Generosity.
Post by: Jean on March 05, 2015, 05:45:25 PM

 Sucks!!!!!!

Title: Re: The Cost of Generosity.
Post by: Michael Murphy on March 05, 2015, 06:15:47 PM

This is like a theater of the absurd.  The inmates are running the asylum.  There should be assistance to donors through the insurance that covers the transplant.

Title: Re: The Cost of Generosity.
Post by: okarol on March 05, 2015, 10:51:04 PM

There is assistance available for living donors, as mentioned in the article.

National Living Donor Assistance Center https://www.livingdonorassistance.org/potentialdonors/applicationprocess.aspx
American Living Organ Donor Fund http://www.helplivingdonorssavelives.org/
American Transplant Foundation http://www.americantransplantfoundation.org/programs/pap/