According to a report from The Free Beacon, the Biden Administration’s radical equity agenda has found its way into the organ transplant process. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra says the transplant industry “is not immune to racial inequities.”
“The organ transplant industry, like every other part of society, is not immune to racial inequities,” Becerra said. “Black Americans disproportionately struggle with life-threatening kidney disease, yet they receive a smaller percentage of kidney transplants. The Biden-Harris administration is taking concrete steps to remove racial bias when calculating wait times and rooting out profiteering and inequity in the transplant process.”
This is part of Biden’s “ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda.” According to The Free Beacon, here’s how it will work:
The proposal, which Becerra’s agency announced on May 8, would place 90 of the nation’s 257 transplant hospitals into a pilot program that uses an annual point system to grade participants. Under the system, a successful kidney transplant counts as one point. A transplant furnished to a low-income patient, however, counts as 1.2 points thanks to a “health equity performance adjustment,” thus incentivizing the hospitals to prioritize such patients.
At the end of each year, those points are applied to a transplant quota. Hospitals that meet their quota receive as much as $8,000 per transplant; those that don’t may have to pay up to $2,000 per transplant.
While the proposal uses income to categorize patients rather than race, Becerra made clear that the scoring system is meant to address racial concerns.
The Biden Admin’s push into equity transplants may raise some legal questions.
“They probably don’t want to say ‘we’re doing this for black patients,’ because they know they’re going to get into trouble with it,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the founder of the anti-woke medical group Do No Harm and father of Washington Free Beacon chairman Michael Goldfarb.
“So these are ways around it to do what they’re trying to accomplish.”
The Biden Administration: doing what they want, law be damned.
