Update: Steve Jobs Resigns: Reposting an Old Post Titled: Steve Jobs' Health, Apple Computer, and Organ Transplantation Possibilities

Steve Jobs has just resigned as CEO of Apple Computer. I wish him a speedy and complete recovery from his illness. Below, I am reposting an article I wrote from earlier this year where I suggested a way to increase organs available for transplantation - by encouraging coworkers (in addition to family, friends, and people who worship together at their given Congregations) to donate organs to their fellow coworkers. Are their any Corporate Health Promotion/Wellness Managers who aren't afraid to make waves who would like to champion this idea in their companies? If they look at their costs for paying claims for employees with ESRD/kidney failure who are on dialysis, they certainly should be paying attention.
The original post from Monday, January 24, 2011, is found below:

You probably have heard about Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, taking a medical leave of absence so that he can focus on his health. Here is the press release. Previously, he has battled pancreatic cancer and undergone a liver transplant.

I wish Steve Jobs all the best and a quick and complete recovery and respect his right to privacy.

I hope Apple champions an intra-company live donor organ donation program whether Steve Jobs is currently in need of a transplant or not because this can bring a revolution to the world or organ transplantation. Corporations like Apple pay towards their employees health insurance costs so they have an economic incentive to keep their employees as healthy as possible. Also, the good-will created by saving and improving the quality of life of their employees is priceless. And it may just contribute towards saving the life of their CEO, Steve Jobs.

I think that an astute Medical Coordinator or Benefits Manager at Apple may want to seize on the opportunity created by the Steve Jobs health situation and implement a corporate initiative to encourage live donor donations from healthy Apple employees to other Apple employees in need of transplants (FYI - therefore, this would work for kidney donations, bone marrow donations, and partial liver donations, depending on transplant center policy.)
Three previous blog posts linked to here, here, and here discuss various statutory laws that decrease the ability to increase the quantity of organs available for transplantion along with a few of my ideas to improve the situation including intra-company live donor donation programs.