Dear Senator Grassley and Senator Moran,

As a veteran of the organ donation and transplant field for over 50 years, I was deeply troubled by your remarks on the Senate floor on Wednesday, December 13th , regarding the present state of the system and the rollout of the Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act. You made it clear that you want to let for-profit companies run the organ donation system—a system that from its very beginnings has relied on Americans giving freely to save others, receiving nothing in return.

Organ donation is the only remaining part of health care still run by non-profits, but now corporate giants like Google, fuelled by your legislation, are preparing to disrupt it. Your words should alarm every American who has registered as an organ donor and all the organ transplant patients desperately waiting for the gift of life…