Posted on 08/31/2013 8:32:09 PM PDT by lbryce
First, a disclaimer: Selling your organs is illegal in the United States. It’s also very dangerous. Handing off an organ is risky enough when done in a top hospital, even more so if you’re doing it for cash in a back alley. No, really: Don’t do this. OK? OK.
There are many organs one can theoretically do without, or for which there’s a backup. Most folks can spare a kidney, a portion of their liver, a lung, some intestines, and an eyeball, and still live a long life. That said, donating a lung, a piece of liver or a section of intestines is a very complicated surgery, so it’s not done frequently on the black market. And no one’s going to make much cash on an eyeball. “In the U.S., there’s a fairly steady supply of donated corneas from corpses,” says Sean Fitzpatrick, director of public affairs at the New England Organ Bank. “There’s pretty much no market demand for eyes.” Giving up a kidney, though, is a relatively simple surgery that has netted desperate people a few bucks.
No one’s going to make much cash on an eyeball. Now, black-market organ dealers don’t do a great job of filing taxes, but here are some prices based on rumored deals and reports from the World Heath Organization. In India, a kidney fetches around $20,000. In China, buyers will pay $40,000 or more. A good, healthy kidney from Israel goes for $160,000.
Don’t expect to pocket all that dough, though. “The person giving up the organ only gets a fraction of the fee,” says Sally Satel, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute think tank who studies the prices paid by legal and illegal organ-donor operations. After the organ broker—the guy who sets up your kidney-for-cash transaction—takes his cut, he needs to pay for travel, the surgeon, medical supplies and a few “look-the-other-way” payoffs. Most people get $1,000 to $10,000 for their kidney (probably much less than you were hoping for). The best bet is to wait until compensation for organs is legalized in the U.S.—the Organ Trafficking Prohibition Act of 2009 would allow payment to donors, but it stalled in Congress—because there’s certainly a market for kidneys. Last summer, a man offering one of his for $100,000 (plus medical expenses) on Craigslist received several offers until the Web site removed his post. And you could probably hold out for even more. In 1999, before eBay delisted a kidney put up for auction, bidders drove the price up to $5.75 million.
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It comes down to this. As indicated by the premise of the article, people assess the pros and cons for their organs based on
1. On the desirability of their own organs that ran the gamut of being indispensable (no $ale) to desire of selling it, factoring in supply and demand, scores plus or minus are then used to assess a market value per organ.
According to the study the organ most in demand with a factor of +10 signifies the extent in which the owner is looking to sell factored by supply and demand the current market value.
So if the organ owner has a factor of +10, with market value having an abundance of the organ in supply, will absorb the organ based on the market value.
The single group of people most inclined to sell their brain are those considered liberal, left wing as their need for a brain is minimal.
To view the organ sales scores per organ at available at Organ-Assessment Council at http:www.human-organvalue.com
Your Hammond organ. You can bet up to $200,000.00 depending on the model and it’s condition.
we have two kidneys for a reason...it wasn’t an accident..
Hmm I wonder how much the liberals gave up for whatever was inside the cranium.
Would you trust someone to whom you sold one kidney to not take the other one while they were in there? For the price of one kidney, they could easily take other organs. It’s not like you’ll be able to do anything about it.
In related news...
Ohio Family: Hospital ‘Botched’ Transplant; Threw Away Kidney
http://fox17online.com/2013/08/31/ohio-family-hospital-botched-transplant-threw-away-kidney/#axzz2dbnojAoa
Toledo Hospital Threw Out Donor Kidney, Now Denies Negligence
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/toledo-hospital-threw-donor-kidney-now-denies-negligence/story?id=20110334
I’ve checked the +10 -10 value ration on a Hammond organ with 3154 organs in current form within living bodies by individuals named Hammond and 108 organs under Hammond kept in cryogenic state, proceeds of which will be distributed to aurvivors.
A lot of people these days seem to be brainless.
LOL, there never WAS anything inside their craniums.
Nevertheless, they are a vital, force and factor in the upcoming economic surge that will propel us to the ‘New Age of Economic Glory’ of Unprecedented Growth and Expansion.
Obama has already raised huge publicity and awareness by offering his brain for sale saying he’s already been bestowed by “The Gift” and feels that keeping his brain of which he has no use for will only serve to ignite the race wars to cause sinister individuals from having it removed by force.
Chilling...
Relevant article: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/belgian-doctors-harvesting-organs-from-disabled-euthanasia-donors
Anyone read the book “Unwind”? Chilling.
This does not deserve posting.
Lovely. I think this is likely to become more commonplace as anti-rejection protocols improve, and it will continue until organs can be grown from the patient’s own tissue in the lab.
The sorry ass should sell them all and eliminate himself from the gene pool!
If I were to target liberals doing criminal organ snarfing, I’d see to it that they got credible, but ultimately quickly painful and fatal organs.
But then, I’m mean.
The story is real, my comments are not.
I think I read somewhere once that a guy in Vegas woke up in his bathtub to find that someone had stolen one of his kidneys.........
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