“Are you saying that the donating hospital isn’t paid? Surely you jest.?”
The hospital where the donation happens receives no money from the receiving hospital. The OPO is the middle man, and by law, they are not-for-profits. Once donation is decided, the receiving hospital is only paid what is contracted between them and the OPO. That money is based on a contract that in most cases isn’t enough to pay expenses incurred. The hospitals have a legal obligation to assist and that obligation creates a situation where the hospitals do not have the leverage to negotiate large financial gains from the process.
You think this is preposterous only because you want to imagine bogeymen out to steal your organs. In reality, there are laws here that protect against that very thing. Also, in reality, most health care practitioners are actually invested in taking care of people. Your accusations about real people working in the trenches to save lives, as agents out to kill you off to steal your organs are silly. It is your conspiracy fantasies that are preposterous.
Donations save lives.
As more and more family members and friends learned of her situation I was shocked at the lack of understanding and downright misinformation that was out there.
It seems one poster refuses to believe what some of us already knew, but maybe others who were not knowledgeable will now open their eyes.