Help Pass the End Kidney Deaths Act (H.R. 2687)!

Provide 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 ​d​ue to the kidney shortage?

Call your House Representative and 2 Senators. Ask them to cosponsor the End Kidney Deaths Act.

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.

100,000 suffered and died in the previous decade. Let’s save 100,000 lives in the next decade. This is that 100,000 people look like:

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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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An infographic highlighting the shortage of organ donors and proposing increased incentives. It states that over 90,000 people are on the kidney waitlist, only about 400 Americans donate kidneys annually, and $1 out of every $100 tax dollars funds dialysis therapy. Additionally, 10,000 Americans are removed from the waitlist each year due to death or sickness. The solution section suggests that most Americans support incentives for living kidney donors, that kidney donation is safer than childbirth and appendectomies, and that 95% of surveyed donors would donate again if able.
Text on a blue background stating: 'Living kidney donors live longer than the general population. Only those who pass a thorough rigorous mental & physical health screening qualify to donate.'
List of notes about federal tax credits, views of U.S. voters on kidney donors, and volunteer donation statistics.
A bar graph shows that the fraction of ESRD patients compared to the U.S. population decreases with higher educational attainment. The bars indicate that patients with less high school education have a ratio of 2.9, high school graduates 1.3, some college 0.5, and college degree 0.2. The chart suggests that more educated patients get more transplants. A green overlay with large black text states: "The number of living kidney donors has stagnated at approximately 6,000 for the past 24 years."

The future of organ transplantation is full of promise—from artificial kidneys to xenotransplantation. But patients can’t wait for the future.

Every year, nearly 10,000 Americans die waiting for a kidney they could have received. Not because a transplant wasn’t possible—but because it didn’t come in time.

The End Kidney Deaths Act can change that—by enabling up to 10,000 additional life-saving transplants annually over the next decade.

The solution is here. The time to act is now.