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President Donald Trump Wednesday signed a decree to help millions of people with kidney disease every year, the first prescription of this type focused on kidney disease since the 1970s. Many were laughing at the president for a comment he made after the signature of the order, which gave the impression of not knowing where the kidneys were and what they were doing.
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"Today, we are taking innovative steps to bring new hope to millions of Americans suffering from kidney disease," Trump said. "So much is not done in government, but now we are doing it."
Trump signs a decree to improve kidney care https://t.co/MjernT3Vjx pic.twitter.com/zAjDxmuIGl
– New York Post (@nypost) July 10, 2019
He later stated that "the kidney had a very special place in the heart", which led critics to believe that the president thought the kidney was in the heart.
TRUMP: "You have worked so hard on the kidney.Very special – the kidney has a very special place in the heart.This is an amazing thing." pic.twitter.com/JLM3uCsO5u
– Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 10, 2019
The first goal of Trump's new agenda is to increase awareness of kidney disease to better detect it in its infancy. According to some estimates, 96% of people with kidney damage are unaware of the problem, which prevents them from taking steps to repair their body before the problem worsens. The Trump administration aims to reduce by 25% by 2030 the number of end-stage renal failure patients with renal insufficiency.
The second goal of this prescription is to provide more and more affordable treatment options for people with end-stage renal disease. As part of its plan to lower the price of kidney treatments, the government is proposing a new Medicare payment structure that would encourage more home-based dialysis care instead of requiring patients to visit the centers. Those who receive hemodialysis at a center must spend about 12 hours a week, making it difficult to maintain employment, disproportionately affecting those who are already hardest hit by costly medical procedures.
The third and final goal of the executive was to double the number of kidneys available for a transplant by 2030. There are currently 100,000 Americans on the waiting list for a kidney transplant, and the death rate of the disease makes it the ninth leading cause of death in the United States. The decree will create new payment models that will encourage treatment centers to modernize their organ transplant programs and technologies. It will also ask the Department of Health and Human Services to increase the benefits offered to living kidney donors, such as child care expenses and lost wages.
The President of the National Kidney Foundation, Dr. Holly Kramer, called the executive order "a major victory in the fight against kidney disease."
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