ECONOMICS
MONEY
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an excess of donors are prepared to offer organs.
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not enough surgeons are available to perform the transplants.
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the inability to pay for the organ creates inadequate quantities supplied.
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the government frequently changes the allocation method.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Over 100, 000 Americans await organ transplants and over 6, 000 die annually while waiting. From an economic perspective the decades-long organ shortage has a simple cause: paying organ donors is illegal. Price controls predictably produce shortages. Payment for organs has been outlawed since at least 1948.
Detailed explanation-2: -The new kidney allocation system (KAS) was developed in response to higher than necessary discard rates of kidneys, variability in access to transplants for candidates who are harder to match due to biologic reasons, and a matching system that results in unrealized life years and high re-transplant rates.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chronic Rejection This is the most common reason that kidney transplants fail. It is the long-term damage done by the body’s immune system for a lot of different reasons. It is important to realize that transplant patients have NO CONTROL over most of these causes of transplant failure.
Detailed explanation-4: -You may be aware that kidneys for transplantation can come from living donors or deceased donors. However, a very small number of people die in circumstances where their organs are suitable for transplant (fewer than 1% of the population) so there is always a shortage.