Jim
Yes, I was trying to say that unless dialysis and transplant are funded by the same entity, there is little incentive for the transplant funder to participate- why should they care that each transplant will save the dialysis funder $x0,000 annually.
For this thinking to prevail, the patient has to be considered as a sack of corn with no feelings, preferences or opinion of its own. ;-) That last sentence is the one that concerns me; increasingly healthcare and health professions are a business rather than a vocation, with profits channelled to and determined by management organisations rather than physicians and hospitals. People complain about doctors' fees but even the greediest doctor is as nothing compared to an army of middle managers whose bonus depends on their ability to squeeze a little more $ away from actual provision of care. ;-)
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1