Opinion
Kidney transplants: Correct the flaw in the sytem
A surgical team performing an operation in a California hospital.(Photo: Hernndorff, via Shutterstock)OPINION: So after seven years of waiting, I finally received a kidney transplant in 2006. That same kidney has kept me alive, and I am grateful I have never had to go back to dialysis. Part of the reason I have stayed healthy is because my continuous health insurance pays for the medication to prevent my body from rejecting the transplanted kidney. But there is a flaw in our system that could prevent kidney transplant recipients from getting this kind of care.