Organ Transplants Expected to Spike Under Trump Proposed Rules (3)

The federal contractors that evaluate and procure organs for transplants would be subject to more government evaluation under changes proposed Dec. 17 by the Trump administration aimed at increasing the number of organ transplants.

The proposed changes are part of President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at rebooting Medicare’s approach to kidney care to ease one of the largest domestic drains on taxpayers. Researchers estimate that 43,000 people in the U.S. die each year when a kidney transplant could have saved their lives. Doctors and researchers say there are enough organs, but inefficiencies mean all of them aren’t used.

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