Senator Todd Young believes the nation’s organ transplant and donation system needs revamped.
In a committee hearing, Senator Todd Young (R) says organizations like United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) have held a monopoly on the donation and transplant system for so long that it’s having negative effects on the people whom need it most.
“Since I got involved in this issue, I was told time and time again, from UNOS, HHS, other interested parties, that management principals didn’t apply,” says Young.
He says the basic principals of effectively managing something do work and can be applied, but the problem is the monopoly control, as he sees it.
“We’ve seen it manifest itself in lost lives, anxious individuals, and incredible professionals who are trying to do the best they can within this system,” Young explains.
Young says he wants a better-functioning organ donation system, which he says could make tens of thousands more organ transplants every year.
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There is no monopoly. UNOS basically houses the application that contains the donors and candidates and recipients. The transplant centers access it to list their patients and accept offers. The OPOs find the donors and allocate the organs through UNet. Policies are created by committees and go through a public comment period for anyone in the US to comment. UNOS is simply a facilitator, the middle man. UNOS got the contract because they had the first IT matching program. This is way more complicated than just stating that UNOS has a monopoly. You have not done your homework. Also, no one at UNOS has gotten extremely wealthy by being employed at UNOS. Many employees start in the Organ Center working 24/7 shifts placing organs. If you took a look at any medical place of employment you would find similar mistakes being made because humans are involved. If you move the contract, humans are still involved!
Not that this isn’t important, but in a time of ballooning debt, weaponized agencies, fraudulent elections, and corrupt Bidens is this REALLY what RINO Young should be spending his time on?
This clown should have been primaried, and now we are stuck with him for 6 more years.
The BIG problem is the huge differences in donation rates by States and Region ( see chart0 Example Midwest very high rate of donation ( Indiana 69 percent!) Liberal coasts very low rate ( new York 20 percent) Donations are sent to region in which they are donated ( usually 3 state region) States that do NOT donate want organs from States that do donate
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Organ donation rates vary widely by country and region. The tables document the effective organ donor designation rate and deceased donors per million in the United States and abroad.
United States
Organ donor designation in the United States (2013 figures)
USPS State Flag Population (2009) % Donors (18+) DMV Sign-up Rate Source
AL Alabama Alabama 3,697,617 61% [1]
AK Alaska Alaska 544,349 80% [1]
AZ Arizona Arizona 4,932,361 42% 17.2% [1]
AR Arkansas Arkansas 2,238,250 58% [1]
CA California California 28,801,211 34% 25.5% [1]
CO Colorado Colorado 3,956,224 67% 64.4% [1]
CT Connecticut Connecticut 2,757,082 41% 36.6% [1]
DE Delaware Delaware 766,884 48% [1]
DC District of Columbia Washington, D.C. 522,843 45% 33.9% [1]
FL Florida Florida 15,315,088 45% [1]
GA Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) 7,429,820 59% [1]
HI Hawaii Hawaii 1,089,302 54% 41.4% [1]
ID Idaho Idaho 1,169,075 61% [1]
IL Illinois Illinois 9,811,190 53% 35.6% [1]
IN Indiana Indiana 4,945,857 69% [1]
IA Iowa Iowa 2,351,233 73% 62.8% [1]
KS Kansas Kansas 2,161,601 43% [1]
KY Kentucky Kentucky 3,362,177 38% 25.9% [1]
LA Louisiana Louisiana 3,484,090 61% 51.2% [1]
ME Maine Maine 1,063,274 55% [1]
MD Maryland Maryland 4,540,763 52% 44.2% [1]
MA Massachusetts Massachusetts 5,244,729 50% [1]
MI Michigan Michigan 7,616,490 39% 12.7% [1]
MN Minnesota Minnesota 4,102,991 62% [1]
MS Mississippi Mississippi 2,239,593 24% [1]
MO Missouri Missouri 4,618,513 67% 36.3% [1]
MT Montana Montana 783,161 82% 62.4% [1]
NE Nebraska Nebraska 1,392,120 49% 43.2% [1]
NV Nevada Nevada 2,095,348 40% [1]
NH New Hampshire New Hampshire 1,045,878 41% [1]
NJ New Jersey New Jersey 7,252,127 33% [1]
NM New Mexico New Mexico 1,571,096 62% [1]
NY New York New York (state) 15,307,107 20% 11.1% [1]
NC North Carolina North Carolina 7,465,545 58% 51.6% [1]
ND North Dakota North Dakota 545,020 66% [1]
OH Ohio Ohio 8,880,551 59% 54.6% [1]
OK Oklahoma Oklahoma 2,877,457 64% [1]
OR Oregon Oregon 3,038,729 74% 37.4% [1]
PA Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 9,787,464 46% 45.1% [1]
RI Rhode Island Rhode Island 833,818 50% [1]
SC South Carolina South Carolina 3,643,633 29% 49.3% [1]
SD South Dakota South Dakota 629,185 55% [1]
TN Tennessee Tennessee 4,962,227 36% 30.3% [1]
TX Texas Texas 19,073,564 17% [1]
UT Utah Utah 1,967,315 69% 51.3% [1]
VT Vermont Vermont 502,060 5% [1]
VA Virginia Virginia 6,329,130 57% 33.1% [1]
WA Washington Washington (state) 5,312,045 78% 56.7% [1]
WV West Virginia West Virginia 1,471,372 35% [1]
WI Wisconsin Wisconsin 4,408,841 58% [1]
WY Wyoming Wyoming 440,922 60% 55.4%