The House held a hearing Tuesday on reforming America’s "grossly inefficient" organ transplant system.
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The House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy held a hearing Tuesday on reforming America’s "grossly inefficient" organ transplant system.
The hearing ― “The Urgent Need to Reform the Organ Transplantation System to Secure More Organs for Waiting, Ailing, and Dying Patients” ― featured testimony from stakeholders including patients on a waitlist for a transplant, a doctor who is a living donor, and experts on the transplant system.
There are 107,000 Americans on an organ transplant waitlist, 33 of whom pass away each day before a transplant becomes available. Additionally, there are hundreds of thousands of Americans who are undergoing dialysis and would benefit from a transplant but aren’t on a waitlist.
Much of the hearing focused on the role played by the nation’s 57 non-profit Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs), which are certified and regulated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
OPOs are granted a monopoly over their designated region and focus on obtaining organs from deceased donors, which account for over 80% of transplants.
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** Combatting Racism Against Asian-Americans
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Asian-American business leaders have launched a foundation to challenge anti-Asian discrimination amidst an increasing number of racial attacks against the community.
The Asian American Foundation raised $125 million from its board members to support Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations. It also raised another $125 million from organizations like Walmart, Coca-Cola, Amazon.com, the Ford Foundation, Bank of America, and the NBA.
The foundation plans to focus on three areas:
1. Supporting organizations and leaders who are measuring and challenging violence against Asian American and Pacific Islanders
2. Developing a data standard that tracks violence and hate incidents
3. Helping to create K-12 and college curriculums that “reflect the history of Asian American and Pacific Islanders as part of the American story.”
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** And, In The End...
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It's Cinco De Mayo—which is not Mexican Independence Day (that's September 16).
In the 1960s, Chicano activists introduced the once-regional holiday to the U.S. Now, Americans from L.A. to N.Y. commemorate the Mexican victory at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War.
Feliz Cinco de Mayo,
—Josh Herman
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