Nomodem: “Now, in my case, the total cost of my transplant and extended hospital stay was about $2 mil (there were complications)”
Neidermeyer: “ “no selling of organs” rules but they get around it by charging for testing the blood and charging hospitals up to 10X the cost of the tests for the testing..”
Someone made $2million dollars...if not the donor - who?
Someone made $2million dollars...if not the donor - who?
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You know who... anyone in on the medical funding gravy train ,,, whether the support for their business is in the form of government generated rules and regulations that effectively grant a protected franchise or if it is from the facilitation of the normal practice of modern transplant medicine...
I have nothing against organ donation , it saves and improves lives ... but I feel very strongly that the donor should be compensated , without them it all comes to a halt... compensating donors will dramatically increase the availability of tissue and stop the abuses (such as the N.J. cadaver tissue/bone scandal last year , Bill Clinton’s scandal wherein HIV positive prisoners were forced to donate blood) related to the scarcity of tissue...