More transplants mean more saved lives

Even with its success, the organ transplant bureaucracy is leaving 100,000 on the waitlist for a new lease on life.

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March 29, 2023 - 2:37 PM

Tens of thousands of Americans are waiting for an organ transplant. Unfortunately, some 12,000 will die every year as they wait. (Dreamstime/TNS)

It’s a now-taken-for-granted miracle that each year in these United States, more than 40,000 people have many healthy years added to their lives by getting new kidneys, livers, hearts and, in rare cases, lungs. That’s terrific, but the bureaucratic apparatus that connects people in need to organs isn’t nearly as efficient as it can be. Just in time, the Biden administration is moving to change that by opening up for bid the contract that’s been performed for decades by the United Network for Organ Sharing.

The UNOS and the regional procurement organizations that receive…

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