Name: Why 28,000 Organs Won’t Make it to Patients in Need | NYT Opinion
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T10:10:11.000Z
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I will have to be here for three and a half hours,

Our government has a system to recover and distribute

organs, and it’s failing the more than 100,000 Americans

every year, instead of going to the patients in need.

My name is Angelo and I’m in need of a kidney transplant.

You’ve all seen those ads asking you to register

My chance of getting an organ depends on the state

to wait between seven to nine years for a kidney.

So I’m driving to other states and other hospitals

There are 58 O.P.O.s in the United States —

And they are tasked with getting the organ

They self-report their metrics to their boss,

it appear we were doing better than we were.

We might later falsely report that only four or five

of those people had healthy enough organs for donation

successful in our recovery effort than we were.

In fact, we might not even visit all 10 people.

I’m definitely sicker than I was a month ago.

identify the good-performing O.P.O.s from the bad

and replace the bad-performing O.P.O.s when necessary.

If O.P.O.s were operating at optimal rates,

I don’t want to see myself in 10 years still on dialysis.

O.P.O.s have a monopoly on the market that they operate in.

The research shows a lack of oversight, inefficiency

North Carolina is going to be my third state.

I have to take my health into my own hands.

I just knew that I would get more out of Instagram

Unlike Tonya and Angelo, I can’t D.I.Y. the system.

The Department of Health and Human Services,

needs to hold O.P.O.s accountable by creating a performance

metrics that does not allow for self-reporting

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