Did Steve Jobs' wealth buy him a faster liver transplant? It certainly helped--and the Apple CEO's odyssey showcases some of the problems with organ donations in America.

The organ transplant list is approaching 100,000 patients, but the waitlist doesn't reflect the full scope of the problem.

The nation"s system for procuring and distributing vital organs for transplant remains deeply troubled, with demand vastly outstripping supply.

As ingenious, painstaking and justifiably attention-getting as domino swaps are, they should not blot out the dismal news that rates of kidney donation, from both living and deceased donors, fall woefully short of the need.

It is time for a state to challenge the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act and offer funeral benefits or some other reward to the estate of those who will give their organs at death.

Altruism is beautiful, but it is not powerful enough to save everyone who needs a kidney.

Many of the quandaries that plague transplant medicine flow from the need to ration scarce resources.

Ferguson's proposals are based onpoor understanding of telecommunications regulation and claims that the broadband marketplaceis exercising monopoly power.