Do you think that a certain amount of money should be paid to those who are organ donors?

Question

I know there are long lists of people who need organs & they are ranked by need. If you were next but someone was worse off than you, then they would get it before you. You, the patient, then end up paying a ridiculous amount of money to those who did your surgery and the hospital. I think it's wrong for a health professional to charge such a steep price for such surgeries when they get the organs for free from organ donors, dead or alive. I think that the donor or their next of kin should see a good amount of money for their donated organs OR the surgeons should SERIOUSLY cut back what they are charging their sick patients. It's just wrong for them to hugely profit out of the situation. I am a donor because I chose to be. You shouldn't have to pay for what I choose to give freely. Surgeons make millions a year off of this. *shrug* that's my opinion. What do you think? Information is welcome.

It shouldn't be expensive in the first place. I've been a donor since I legally could. Main point: No one should profit.

Answer 1

I think compensation should be given, maybe that would be a big incentive for people to become donor's. I am have agreed to be a donor (when I'm dead, I can't use it), I am also a bone marrow donor, so I can help possibly while I'm alive. Surgeon's make a lot of money, but you have to consider the whole thing. Here in Michigan a whole transplant team lost their lives when their helicopter crashed. Part of the cost is the transportation of the organ and that transplant team, the hospital gets their cut. But I do think that more people would donate if they thought their families would benefit in someway after they are gone.

Answer 2

No.
Compensating donors might result in more organs available for transplant but would this would have no effect on the cost of an operation. It might also lead to greater organ selling (which benefits no one put financially capable patients and their greedy doctors). Surgeons, their teams, and hospitals need to get paid. Like most medical procedures it's debatable how much doctors should profit from their medical skills but most are not making millions.

Answer 3

Organ donors should get a discount on their insurance premiums. Insurance companies would give the organs to their own customers, thereby cutting their costs and allowing them to offer the lower premiums to customers.

Making things "free" makes them scarce. Supply and demand.

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Answer 4

Do I own my body or does the government? If I own my body, than I have the right to SELL my body. If people could legally sell organs, the supply of organs would increase.

Answer 5

No.

I filed out my organ donor card because it is the right thing to do, not to make a buck.

Answer 6

Organ doners don't need the organs where they are going.
God knows we need them down here.
There really isn't a lot of places to spend money either.
Maybe you have heard the saying you can't take it with you?

Answer 7

No, that might make organ transplant more expensive than it already is...

But then again, what do I know? :P

Answer 8

It would not be considered organ donation if compensation is given.

Answer 9

bombs away today's wife told me he needs an organ transplant between his legs.

Answer 10

no