Should the complex business of organ transplantation be turned over to a private enterprise? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Obtaining human organs for transplantation is largely managed by UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing, and it’s a not for profit enterprise. Yet Adam Schiavi, a neuro critical care expert at Johns Hopkins, says if current political forces have their way, a for profit concern may soon take over. 

Schiavi: It's a popular way of doing business, it's a popular way of doing politics these days. If people continue to not pay attention and misinformation continues to be the order of the day and be the narrative I think it's more likely than not that it will come into something that we are not OK with, and then it's going to be really hard to ratchet that back from a public democracy point of view, which is slow incremental change on purpose through consensus. And I think probably the fact that whatever corporation turns out to be the one who can profit from this is going to start screaming that their rights are being infringed upon and their right to make profit.                            :34

At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.