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The Hastings Center stated on May 10, 2021
“When attempting to fix a problem, it is unethical to choose a broken tool out of convenience when better tools exist.”
The Hastings Center recently published a report, by Brendan Parent and Alexander T.M. Cheung, entitled U.S. Organ Donation Needs Better Oversight, but New Rule Will Not Help, that examines the latest decision by the CMS.
“But using such a flawed metric as death certificate data to determine the OPO performance denominator would not accurately track where improvements need to be made. Ineffective and misguided reform efforts would follow, perhaps leading to the decertification of OPOs that actually perform well. Ironically, this would only exacerbate the problem CMS set out to fix in the first place.”
We’ve questioned the motives of tech interests, venture capitalists, and their pay for policy studies supporting this new rule. It’s hard not to. There’s a $90.6 billion industry at stake. The rule’s supporters are doing their best to kill the country’s confidence in the organ donation system. Why? They want to control and monetize the system for their benefit. That’s what tech interests and venture capitalists do. They destroy and take over.