The question of what to do about these and other claims has grown increasingly high-profile in recent years. As the struggle moves toward a tipping point, a bipartisan effort by the Senate Finance Committee has turned to subpoena power to investigate the United Network for Organ Sharing, while the House Committee on Oversight and Reform has been firing off letters asking for facts, figures, and explanations from 15 organ procurers around the U.S., as well as an industry trade association.
Doctors in the United States performed 39,000 transplants in 2020 and, in 2019, had the highest per capita transplant rate in the world. Overall donations are up more than 38% in the last five years, while 34 of the organ procurement groups set their all-time organ donation record in 2020, according to the industry’s overseer.
Yet many agree the number of transplants is needlessly low, costing thousands of lives. Additionally, peer-reviewed research finds that the recent increase in organ donation rates in the United States are “almost wholly attributable to the [opioid] epidemic, and reflects the byproduct of a national tragedy, rather than an improved system to be celebrated.”
The escalating battle over what to do about accountability for organ collectors—replete with personal attacks, and political maneuvering—could determine the industry’s course for decades to come. More immediately, it could also influence whether 107,000 men, women, and children currently hoping for transplants get off waiting lists, and receive organs without which they cannot survive.
All organ procurement organizations are 501(c)3 nonprofits with expenses—totaling roughly $3 billion annually—largely covered by taxpayers via Medicare. They also receive fees for being intermediaries between organ donors and patients needing transplants. Previous investigative reporting and government audits have found misspending of taxpayer dollars on private planes, retreats to 5-star hotels, and golf tournaments, among other management perks. More recently, increased funds have gone to trade associations in Washington, which hire lobbyists and public relations firms to influence executive branch decision-makers, Congress, and the public.
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