Waitlist Zero

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Waitlist Zero is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 12, 2024 and October 13, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “including the role of ACX grantee Waitlist Zero”; “Elaine works with Waitlist Zero”. It most often appears alongside Australia, Dan Elton, FDA.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: September 12, 2024
  • Last seen: October 13, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

September 12, 2024 · Original source
1: NPR has an article on the movement to compensate kidney donors, including the role of ACX grantee Waitlist Zero.
October 13, 2025 · Original source
Elaine Perlman, $94K, to continue lobbying for kidney donation incentives. Elaine works with Waitlist Zero and the Coalition To Modify NOTA to promote the End Kidney Deaths Act, which offers valuable tax credits to kidney donors. They estimate this bill could save 100,000 lives over the next decade, and save the government $50 billion/year (dialysis is very expensive, Medicare currently covers it, and transplantees would no longer need it). Since our previous grant last year, the EKDA has been cosponsored by 29 members of Congress, discussed in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and profiled in the LA Times. The prediction markets are down to only 25% chance it gets passed this year, but I’m optimistic about 2026 - 2027