We really can't promise both more transplants and better outcomes. The controversies over organ allocation really represent intellectual exhaustion in the face of a long series of inadequate policy responses to the decade-long trend of the kidney supply increasing only at the expense of organ quality and patient outcomes.

Standards for posttransplant graft/survival rates do not reward transplant centers for performing riskier transplants to increase population benefit.

Successful implementation of initiatives to improve screening and access to health-promotion activities at minority-serving religious institutions requires partnering with faith-based organizations, adapting interventions, and leveraging organizational infrastructure and social networks.

Disparities in children’s mental health care could be addressed through expansion of school-based programs via passage of the Mental Health in Schools Act.

The implementation of breakthrough quality improvement initiatives has been successful in closing the gap between the number of organs that are available and the number of patients who need them.

The benefits of the international presumed-consent policy are presented as a solution to the United States' current shortage of organs available for transplantation.

A physician discusses the disparity of care for uninsured or underinsured cancer patients in terms of their time of diagnosis, treatment, and clinical outcomes.

When identifying underrepresented subgroups deserving of special recruitment efforts for research participation, social determinants of health other than race should be given more consideration.

Biological and cultural differences affect the experience of pain, and misinformation and biases affect its treatment.

Designation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a medically underserved population would not solve problems of access to care.