Organ Donation comes with a price
According to the National Organ Transplantation Act, sale of organs for transplantation is illegal in the US. Organs can only be donated. There were 6,613 people gave organs in 2002, which tripled the number in 1990. However, there is still a shortage because the demand of organs for transplantation is much larger than the amount of donation (supply). Some patients just could not wait until the right organ donation and died. The US Department of Health and Human Services is trying to encourage more people to donate their organs. Nevertheless, there exist several problems that donors should understand, such as the risk of giving away their organs. As it mentioned in the article, donors may have financial, physical and emotional problems, which they have to pay for their kindness. For instant, donor’s long-term recovery fee is not covered by insurance companies. Also, there are some physical problems. For example, in 2002, 56 kidney donors had to take a kidney transplant operation later and some donors died because of the donation. We have to admit that donors pay more than we thought to help other people and sometimes they may have problem out of control in the future. Do you think they should get some money for their recovery after donation? Their kindness cannot pay off their bills. Do you think it is worthy consideration to donate organ for transplantation even though there exist so many potential problems?
5 comments:
If a shortage of organs exists, then an effort should be made to attract more people to donate organs (i.e. financial payment). If a surplus of organs exists, then organs should be taken on a donation basis. People get paid for their blood and plasma so why not pay them for their organs as well.
I agree that people should be more encouraged to donate their organs. However, since there is a shortage and people have to sometimes wait years for an organ, maybe people who already want to be donors could be paid to give up certain organs before they die.
I think whether someone wants to donate his or her organ is a personal choice. I agree that the government should pay the donors so that they can take care of themselves, but it doesnt means government is buying the organs. Rather more, I strongly believe that technology matters, someday we maybe can colum our own organs so that it won't be any shortage anymore.
I agree that people should be more encouraged to donate their organs. I also think that people should get paid for donatating organs. For example I donate plasma and I get paid $50 a week to donate plasma twice a week. When I donate I am helping people so I think it is the same with organs.
With the cost of health insurance rising,the least the insurance companies could do is reimburse them donors for their time and organ(s). If we could regenerate our organs, then it might be a different story, but unfortunately we cannot accomplish this feat. There are too many health risks that stem from organ donations and transplant to not be compensated for.
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