Protect organ donors Editor: Many living organ donors experience higher premiums or denial of insurance coverage based solely on their status as a donor. Hopefully, this will not continue for long. In late February, the Living Donor Protection Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate and in the House of Representatives. This bill would protect living organ donors by prohibiting insurance companies from denying or limiting life, disability and long-term-care insurance to living donors and prevent them from charging higher premiums. The bill also clarifies that living organ donors may use time granted through the Family and Medical Leave Act to recover from donation. This is significant for me because my 26-year-old son received a kidney from an unrelated living donor. This man saved my son’s life and he deserves the protections that the Living Donor Protection Act would afford him. There are more than 100,000 people waiting to receive a kidney transplant. In 2015, 17,878 kidney transplants were performed and 5,628 were from living donors. I hope that Sen. Bob Casey, Sen. Pat Toomey and others in Congress will join in co-sponsoring this important legislation. I thank U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright of Moosic for stepping up and co-sponsoring this legislation. ROBERTA S. REED WEXFORD, ALLEGHENY COUNTY