![]() Jennifer Erickson, senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists. ![]() Today, On Point: Reforming the country's organ transplant system. And if someone isn't good, they can lose their contract," Greg Segal, patient advocate and co-founder of Organize, says. "Government now can hold its contractors, plural, to much higher standards. Read the Senate finance report on UNOS here. This fall, contracts will be open for bids for the first time. ![]() Patients and families deserve better than what they are getting from UNOS." "You should not be allowed anywhere near the organ transplant system in this country. Senator Elizabeth Warren wants UNOS banned. "Far too many Americans are dying needlessly because UNOS and many of the transplant organizations it oversees are failing and seem uninterested in improving," Sen. It's the United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS, the single organization that runs America's organ transplant system. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here.ġ7 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant.Īnd there's one non-profit monopoly that influences the lives and deaths of thousands. ![]() ![]() IV fluids hang inside an operating room during a kidney transplant surgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington D.C., Tuesday, June 28, 2016. ![]()
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