do you know anyone that SOLD a kidney?

Question

how much did they make? I know sales happen some places in the world. I'm curious how many people know a REAL living organ seller.

Answer 1

They do it all the time in India. I believe the going rate is about $1500.

Answer 2

Organs are sold, and in the United States. Pretty much any time a hospital receives an organ, they buy them, and that money goes to the Organ procurement organization in the area, That money goes to pay the people who work for the OPO to allow them to keep in business. The money is different than the cost of the procedure.

However, an individual does not buy an organ from another individual legally in the United States.

I will break it down, an OPO covers a large area and handles all the people in the area on the transplant list. Transplant teams work out of hospitals, and handle the individual cases. When an organ becomes available, the OPO is contacted and they decide who gets the organ. THat person's transplant network is contacted by the OPO, and that network/hospital pays a fee to the OPO for the organ.

The process is a little different for living donation though.

Answer 3

It has not happened in the United States.

The national organ registry makes sure that this NEVER happens. It is medically unethical and the medical profession tries its best to make sure it never happens. There are new surgeries popping up in Asia where they can offer surgery for half the price of those in American hospitals. These hospitals will want to join the US National Registry so they can access the majority of organs. To comply with this organization they would have to agree to inspections and a set of standards that would prevent this from every happening. Otherwise their access to the majority of organs and patients able to pay for the operation would be closed to them.

It could happen overseas in some strange nation or a place without ethical standards, but doctors in the US can't practice in a hospital without permission and they can't afford the equipment for an organ transplant any other way. If they tried to conduct an organ donation surgery then the hospital would check to make sure it is 100% legal and legitimate. If not then the hospital would refuse to let it be done.

Money can buy anything thing I assume, so if you had unlimited funds you could buy and organ transplant, but not in the US, and most of Europe follows the same system.

Human cloning is possible, although the clone produced would probably be a poor one and it would quickly die. No lab that wants access to funds from any country associated with the UN would try and run a human cloning operation, because currently it is illegal and most nations would follow the ethical standards, currently in force to prevent it.

Will it happen is a different question and I think that eventually someone will try human cloning, it is only a question of time.

Answer 4

Selling kidneys is illegal in America (silly isn't it?)

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