Congressional Commission Urges US Government to Confront China Over Forced Organ Harvesting

The Epoch Times ^ | 12/20/2024 | Frank Fang

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Federal insurers should not reimburse patients seeking organ transplant surgery in China, the commission said in its new report.

A congressional committee has offered several recommendations to the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government on how to end the Chinese regime’s horrific practice of forced organ harvesting, with measures that would discourage Americans from traveling to China for organ transplantation.

The bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) released its 2024 annual report on human rights conditions in China on Dec. 20. The report, which is more than 300 pages long, documented China’s “massive failures to comply with international human rights standards,” said the commission chair and co-chair, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Sen. Jeffrey Merkley (D-Ore.), respectively.

A section of the report’s recommendations focuses on addressing China’s forced organ harvesting practices. It suggests that the presidential administration implement regulations to prevent federal insurers from covering the costs of organ transplants performed in China, as well as post-transplant care, including immunosuppressant medications, for patients who undergo surgery in China.

For more than a decade, China has been a top destination for medical tourists who seek organ transplants, as Chinese hospitals have consistently offered short waiting times for matching organs—significantly shorter than in developed nations with public organ donation programs. Prisoners of conscience in China are being used as a living organ bank and are killed on demand for their organs.

Some state governments have taken action to combat China’s state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting. Beginning in June 2023, Texas, Utah, and Idaho have enacted laws to prevent insurance companies from covering transplant surgeries if the organs originate from China.

The commission also suggested that the executive branch investigate whether federal money has been provided to Chinese entities engaged in unethical...

[KingofZion]

Another horrific China trade that needs to be shut down.

Your kidney probably comes from a Ughyer or Falun Gong prisoner.

[adorno]

Prisoners of conscience in China are being used as a living organ bank and are killed on demand for their organs.

I know that people desperate for an organ will do just about anything to get one, but, most expect their organs to come from somebody who died in an accident or from illness, but, how does anybody knowingly accept an organ from a person who is deliberately killed to make available whatever organ is needed.

How does anybody live with their conscience after the horrible means that the organ was obtained? Any insurer that approves such organ harvesting as a means to a 'cure', should be banned from being insurers.

[mairdie]

Too many elderly in power needing replacement parts. One of the horrors of this period of civilization.

[ABStrauss]

Keep up the lousy work Congressrats and it’ll be yours and our organs being harvested.

[delta7]

Maybe they should approach Ukraine first on their organ harvesting trade, approaching China and not Ukraine is half of the story.

[unlearner]

What will happen to the harvested organs of Christians, targeted by China for their faith, when the rapture happens?

Maybe those organs will get repossessed.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Send Gil “The Arm”.....