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If you live in #Kansas, please contact your state lawmaker to request support for HB 2041, which would prevent insurers from discriminating against living #organdonors. More info and action alert HERE:

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Ask your state representative to support HB 2041 to support organ donors

Kansas’ HB 2041 aims to prevent insurance companies from discriminating against living organ donors by charging higher premiums or refusing to insure them altogether.

While most transplanted organs are from deceased donors, patients may also receive organs from living donors. Living donation offers an alternative for individuals awaiting transplantation from a deceased donor and increases the existing organ supply. Almost 6,000 living-donor transplants were performed last year in the United States. Kidneys are the most common organ transplanted from living donors, followed by liver and lung. Both living and deceased donation offer hope to the more than 123,000 people waiting for an organ transplant right now—including more than 100,000 who are waiting for a kidney transplant.

Providing incentives and removing financial burdens for living donors can lead to an increase in organ donations.

Please contact your state representative and ask him/her to support this important legislation.

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