Should organ donors get paid?

More and more think so:

Warren related an anecdote to me from an Indian surgeon to put the issue in perspective. The surgeon was at a conference in the United States, and had been badgered repeatedly by American transplant surgeons on the point that payment for organs in India just had to be stopped. Finally, the Indian surgeon had his say. He said he understood what the American surgeons were saying, but that they had to understand that getting paid $5,000 (or similar amount) for an organ for poor Indian person meant they could educate their entire family and live off of that money for the rest of their lives. There’s just too much incentive.

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