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It is noteworthy that without a government guarantee to pay for all people with heart failure, great progress has and is being made to address the supply of organs available for transplantation.
Contrast this with the dismal state of the kidney transplant waiting list. I am sorry to say the amount of money paid for dialysis by the government has distorted the equilibrium in the market for R&D for ESRD not relating to dialysis.
BTW, AS OF SEPTEMBER 15, 2010, THERE WERE 86,142 CANDIDATES AWAITING A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT WHEREAS THERE WERE 3,149 PEOPLE AWAITING A HEART TRANSPLANT. INTERESTING, NO?
See UNOS candidate waiting list data retrieved from here
