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A Congressional Gold Medal for Transplant Donors and Families

The Matas proposal to start a regulatory kidney sales system (1) would precipitate the complete disintegration of altruistic donation and trust nurtured over many years by the transplant community. For blood donations, a worldwide voluntary system exists today because laws were passed outlawing paid donors when the impossibility of assuring a clean supply became apparent. One need only recall the line-up of skid row drug addict donors, to visualize the long-term consequences of a paid donor system. Even more disturbing, the proposal to pay $100 000 for a kidney would have a major impact on cadaver organ donations, for families would ask for $200 000 for two kidneys, and how much more for hearts, livers and lungs? To consider paying ’market price’ for all organs would create chaos beyond imagination.