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Kidney transplant - The Journey from the Donor's Side

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@donnan

Health insurance determines where I live. I spent almost 51 years with brittle type one diabetes thus insurance wasn't fun. Since my one year anniversary of my transplant I had to move across the country to now be seen at JAX Mayo. I'm 62. Will be checking in with the transplant insurance department at Mayo 6 months prior to my 65th birthday. They will guide me as to which insurance includes them. Next I check out the plans to figure out which is best for prescriptions. You need to stay 5 steps ahead and that's time consuming but well worth it. I have found the JAX Mayo transplant - department to be absolutely wonderful.

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@donnan As a donor it doesn't make sense to set my kidney up for failure which is exactly what it is when the recipient is cut off & denied their medicine based on their financial status. I was very pleased in researching this grave matter I found hundreds of thousands of people advocating for life safe prescription assistance. I posted a variety of Advocacy/ assistance links in Journey From the Donors Side for anyone who is interested in advocating for the under insured, economically disadvantaged and/ or in need of immunosuppressant prescription help. I can handle the idea of failure due to medical cause but not because of deliberate financial failure as in withdrawing prescription assistance.

@ca426 Well I'm part of the human race who live & breath for the betterment of life. It is a cruel thing to give hope for a quality life then take it back a few months later because one cannot afford a great insurance policy or high dollar prescriptions. There is so much wasteful spending that it boggles my mind this is perfectly acceptable to some people.
I'm well aware that we face resource depletion, overpopulation, mass polution and other world class issues but medical care should not be one of them. I'm by no means a push over but I am a philosophical humanitarian & as such I have an obligation to "Pay it Forward". Everyone who has ever recieved anything from anyone without expectations should also feel that sense of responsibility to pay it forward. But that's just me looking through my rose colored lenses again.

@donnan I have United Healthcare dual option planMedicare Advantage plan. It has worked 100% for me during my pursuit of liver transplant .
The Social worker team at Mayo Jax is superb. Hope your research brings good results.