{"id":3958,"date":"2022-03-04T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:12:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:12:20","slug":"they-say-their-children-are-being-denied-transplants-because-of-their-disabilities-a-new-federal-law-may-help-change-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/03\/02\/they-say-their-children-are-being-denied-transplants-because-of-their-disabilities-a-new-federal-law-may-help-change-that\/","title":{"rendered":"They say their children are being denied transplants because of their disabilities. A new federal law may help change that."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3958\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>A patient with disabilities can be denied life-saving organ transplants because of those disabilities, and parents often fear the worst. Families have won protections in many states \u2014 including 14 in the last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But more than three decades after the Americans with Disabilities Act \u2014 which prohibits discrimination based on a person&#8217;s disability \u2014 became federal law, advocates say inequities persist in health care. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/organ-transplants-discrimination-disability-rights\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3958\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading A patient with disabilities can be denied life-saving organ transplants because of those disabilities, and parents often fear the worst. Families have won protections in many states \u2014 including &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/03\/02\/they-say-their-children-are-being-denied-transplants-because-of-their-disabilities-a-new-federal-law-may-help-change-that\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They say their children are being denied transplants because of their disabilities. 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