The National Kidney Foundation has gone against the American Medical Associations efforts to lobby congress to permit compensation for organ donation.
According to the Slate’s “Medical Examiner,” the senior vice president for health policy and research at the NFK said monetarily rewarding donors would cheap of the “Gift of Life.”
However, according to the online magazine, a 2005 Gallup poll by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services revealed that of users surveyed, 19 percent said they would be more likely to donate if compensation were to be provided.
The Slate also revealed that the NFK once supported financial incentives for organ donation; in fact the foundation supported a bill in 1999 that would have provided a $10,000 insurance policy to families, payable upon transplantation of a deceased love one’s organs.
The Slate reported it is unclear why the NKF has changed their minds, but their opposition is contradicting the cause they are trying to promote. (Read more here).
