My guess would be that the motive was trying to ensure that the patients who received a transplant there would be successful. In other words, trying to ‘cherry pick’ which patients make it to transplant in order to make their success rate artificially high. Being a transplant surgeon can be very prestigious and if your numbers make you the best of the best…
“The commission’s study found that 54%, roughly half of respondents had security concerns. Roughly 88% of participating drivers opted to self-report mileage instead of using a GPS monitoring system.”
I feel like this part of the article needed some serious exploration that isn’t there. Is there a chance in this proposition that they would track mileage with a GPS system? Because that is a much bigger deal if so.
You could have the odometer read yearly by a certified person. In UT they do this for registration renewals and you can have it done at pretty much any gas station or dealership.
I think that would be infinitely better than affixing an electronic tracking device from the government to all private vehicles.
Texas Surgeon Is Accused of Secretly Denying Liver Transplants ( www.nytimes.com )
Washington is considering replace gas tax with controversial pay-per-mile program ( www.kiro7.com )
Plug in or gas up, it doesn’t matter. The more you drive the more you pay.