Learn about best practices in engaging your elected officials, and the public policy issues affecting health care and kidney disease.
Although many states' 2021 legislative sessions have already ended, we're still working on 100+ bills. While the pandemic slowed down most things, it certainly did not stop our progress fighting kidney disease! Learn more in our What's happening in the states blog post. READ MORE >>
TOPICS: What’s happening in the states, Policy, Living Donor Protection Report Card
AKF is currently working on more than 120 bills in 40 states. We have made great progress, in large part due to the work of our dedicated Ambassadors! READ MORE >>
TOPICS: What’s happening in the states, Living Donor Protection Report Card
Kidney disease "uproots the lives of children, taking them from playing doctor one day to barely being kept alive by doctors the next." Learn why 15-year-old Amelia became an AKF Ambassador "to be a voice for pediatric kidney patients" in her Ambassador spotlight. READ MORE >>
TOPICS: Ambassador, Advocates, Spotlight
AKF is working on 150 bills in 48 states! Across the country, we're fighting for living donor protections, new kidney disease task forces and the right for everyone in need to receive a transplant. READ MORE >>
TOPICS: What’s happening in the states, Living Donor Protection Report Card
"I wish elected officials were aware that dialysis patients are exhausted...and that being on dialysis changes patients’ lives forever," says AKF Ambassador Tamara Walker. She joined our Advocacy Network to raise kidney disease awareness, especially among legislators who have the power to make real change for people like her. Learn more in Tamara's Ambassador spotlight READ MORE >>
TOPICS: Ambassador, Advocates, Spotlight
Even after becoming a living kidney donor for his wife, Jeremy Garcia still felt the need to give back. He decided the best way for him to do that was to become an AKF Ambassador. READ MORE >>
TOPICS: Ambassador, Advocates, Spotlight
Kidney Month is a time for raising awareness about issues that matter to people with kidney disease. We brought that awareness to Capitol Hill earlier this month so AKF Ambassadors could discuss with their lawmakers two pieces of legislation that are critically important to people living with kidney disease, living organ donors and their families. READ MORE >>
TOPICS: Advocacy day, Ambassador, Advocates
There are some major health coverage provisions included in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which was recently signed into law by President Biden. From Affordable Care Act and COBRA subsidies to Medicaid provisions, learn more about the changes. READ MORE >>
TOPICS: ACA, Affordable Care Act, Medicaid
