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Compensating Organ Donors Becomes 'Talk Of The Nation'by Scott Hensley
When we first kicked around the idea of asking people to share their opinions about compensating organ donors, it was pretty clear that we were on to something. Everybody in the newsroom seemed to have a strong feeling about it.
Our NPR-Thomson Reuters Health Poll found that about 60 percent of Americans would support modest compensation in the form of credits toward future health care needs of people who made donations while alive of kidneys, bone marrow and portions of liver.
Bioethicist Dr. Stuart Youngner, from Case Western Reserve's med school, and I joined Neal Conan on NPR's Talk of the Nation Tuesday to chat about the findings and hear from people across the country.
The callers helped give voice to the core issue. There's a persistent shortage of organs in this country, and it's getting worse. The rate of organ donations has fallen 2 percent since 2005, and the waiting list of recipients has grown 25 percent, Youngner pointed out.
Federal law bans financial incentives for organ donations. But is it time to reconsider?
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We at Save Lives Now New York Foundation, Inc are totally behind expoloring and finding acceptable financial incentives (or doing away with disincentives). If we could go even farther, I think that would be acceptable. When speaking with Walter Graham , the CEO of UNOS, he said the problem has always been "what is enough and wgat is too much". We must statr a natinal diologue about this now.
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