{"id":1911006,"date":"2023-04-06T23:25:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T03:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-hhs-may-plan-to-prioritize-organ-transplants-by-race-legal-group-warns-launches-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T23:32:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T03:32:41","slug":"bidens-hhs-may-plan-to-prioritize-organ-transplants-by-race-legal-group-warns-launches-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-hhs-may-plan-to-prioritize-organ-transplants-by-race-legal-group-warns-launches-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s HHS May Plan to Prioritize Organ Transplants by Race, Legal Group Warns, Launches Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-hhs-may-plan-to-prioritize-organ-transplants-by-race-legal-group-warns-launches-inquiry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1911006&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0406\/108ff53f-5c02-4fec-8e0a-0635c575b1e5\/audio.mp3?length=4044141&#038;duration=337\"><\/div>\n<p>The America First Legal Foundation (AFL) has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to investigate what it suspects to be a forthcoming \u201cracist overhaul\u201d of the nation\u2019s organ transplant system. This comes amid the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to promote racial equity across government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>AFL&#8217;s request seeks all records relating to organ transplantation from HHS, including mentions of race, ethnicity, discrimination, and other such terms, charging that the Biden administration plans to make race a factor in prioritizing organ transplant recipients.<\/p>\n<p>The document filed by AFL notes that President Biden signed a new Executive Order on Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, instructing federal agencies to establish \u201cequity-focused\u201d leadership teams to \u201cprevent and remedy discrimination, including by protecting the public from algorithmic discrimination.\u201d HHS, which oversees the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), was one of the many agencies identified in the directive.<\/p>\n<p>AFL claims that recent HHS efforts to \u201cracialize\u201d health policy, combined with the executive order, suggest that the Biden administration plans to \u201cunlawfully alter\u201d the OPTN to allocate organs based on the race of the recipient rather than medical need.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, the HHS Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a request for information seeking public comments on \u201cpotential changes to the requirements that transplant programs, organ procurement organizations, and end-stage renal disease facilities must meet\u201d to participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs. One issue CMS sought input on was how to increase equity in organ transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>HRSA has modified how it reports data on organ transplants by creating new categories of racial identifiers for patients, and also launched a new \u201cModernization Initiative\u201d last month to \u201cstrengthen accountability, equity, and performance\u201d in the organ donation and transplantation system.<\/p>\n<p>AFL claims that the Biden administration\u2019s obsession with dividing Americans based on their race may lead to donated organs being allocated based on the race of the recipient instead of medical criteria as Congress requires, posing a danger.<\/p>\n<p>The National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 created the OPTN and directed it to establish a national list of people who need organ transplants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to increase racial equity across government agencies, the America First Legal Foundation (AFL) has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to investigate what it suspects to be a forthcoming \u201cracist overhaul\u201d of the nation\u2019s organ transplant system. 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