Tell your Senator to support S2320

[GreggC]

As many of you know, I received a kidney transplant last October. Our congressman is sponsoring a bill to extend immunosuppressive drugs to cover the life of the patient. At the current time, after three years, the patient must cover this cost in the following ways: 1) personal insurance, 2) public/pharmaceutical programs or 3) out-of-pocket. Currently, Medicare pays approximately $17,300/year to maintain the transplant. While this is a chunk of money, if the kidney fails, the patient has to go back on dialysis, which affects the quality of his/her life AND dialysis costs Medicare approximately $68,000 per year. This just makes good sense from a monetary stance. Thank all of you for your help in advance.