Government Funded Organ Harvesting
July 3, 2009 by Timothy Michael
Filed under US News
Tue, 06/30/2009
Every year thousands of people die who desperately need organs. In an effort to match organ supply with demand, the House of Representatives provided an incentive in the form of a federal grant. The 2004 Organ Donation and Recovery Improvement Act
expanded the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Division of Transplantation’s ability to provide grants to hospitals and organ procurement organizations in order to develop programs. The act expands upon grants that began in 2002. In 2007, both grants focused on Uncontrolled Donors after Cardiac Death, a relatively new concept for the grant.
Judicial Watch obtained records on these grants after litigation. The records are a prime example of what can happen without proper oversight and transparency. Millions of taxpayer dollars are being used to fund a medical program that follows a very similar failed program from the 1990s and that is corrupted by serious shortcomings.
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