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It will eventually be presented to congress to encourage lawmakers to reevaluate the current situation and revise the law so that organ donors can legally receive indirect financial incentives from the government, or government approved, entities.

Some organizations and people who object to giving financial incentives to increase organ donation are the National Kidney Foundation, Dr. Del Monico, Art Caplan, PhD, a ethicist at University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Clive Calendar, et al.

But a recent Gallup Poll survey shows the majority of Americans are in favor of changing the law, and many prominent scholars, ethicists, economists, physicians support changing the current legislation.

While many people are against a completely free market, where in theory a rich person can buy from a poor person, our proposals is only for third party (the government) purchases the kidney and distributes it fairly to poor and rich alike. On this proposal of third party purchasing, recent surveys showed over 50% of those polled in support of it.  The American Society Transplant Surgeons recently did a poll and 3 in 4 were either in favor of this proposal or not opposed.

Some of the people in favor of third party purchase of organs are:

Dr. Benjamin Hippen, Nephrology and Internal Medicine North Carolina
Dr. Sally Satel, Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Mark J. Cherry, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Saint Edward’s University, in Austin, Texas
Dr. James Stacey Taylor, Associate Prof of Philosophy at the College of N.J.
Dr. Michele Goodwin, Law Professor
Dr. Arthur Matas, Physician of Transplant Surgery & former president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Dr. Michael Friedlaender, Kidney Transplant, Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem
Dr. Eli Friedman, Nephrologist
Dr. Amy Friedman, Transplant Surgeon
Robby Berman, MPA, MBA, Founder and Director, Halachic Organ Donor Society
Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Halperin, Medical Ethicist for Chief Rabbinate of Israel
Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel
Rabbi Yaakov Weiner
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein
Asher Meir, Ethicist
Joel Wolowelsky, PhD, Ethicist

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