Center for Ethical Solutions Inc

Center for Ethical Solutions educates the public and stimulates debate on critical issues in patient-care ethics. Non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)(3) The Center for Ethical Solutions (CES) is focused on finding practical answers to the difficult questions of medical ethics and health policy — answers that look beyond the preconceived and the usual, and that provide people with options that might otherwise be overlooked.  As of late, we at CES have been focused especially on our launching of the American Living Organ Donor Fund. While CES continues to affect change in the realm of policy, there is an unfortunate need for more immediate and substantive change on a case-by-case basis. It costs more in the United States to be a living organ donor than it does to receive a transplant. The dismal financial reality of becoming an organ donor, the fact that one must be well-off to donate his or her organs to others in need, prevents many otherwise-viable, and totally willing, potential donors from following through with the procedure. As many as 25% of prospective donors drop out of the process due solely to financial considerations. In a large number of these cases, a few hundred dollars could well have made the difference between a life saved and a life lost. More about this project can be found at the following address: http://www.helplivingdonorssavelives.org/Our officers, advisers, and researchers are what set CES apart: We pride ourselves on placing a higher value on solving problems than on finding answers that fit neatly into any particular political framework. We don’t deny that each of us has come to this project with a well-developed sense of our own political and moral beliefs. However, when faced with issues as urgent as the organ shortage, or as personal as doctor/patient-directed pain management, or as tragic as the state of medical care available to our veterans, allowing politics to dictate the scope of options available to people is simply unthinkable. If such considerations limited the scope of our studies as well, we wouldn’t be able to call this endeavor, “the Center for Ethical Solutions.”