Incentives for Providing Organs
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McCarrick, Pat Milmoe
Darragh, Martina
Abstract
After a contentious debate at its 2002 annual meeting, the American Medical Association's House of Delegates voted to endorse the opinion of its Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs that the impact of financial incentives on organ donation should be studied (Josefson 2002). The shortage of organs for transplantation has been an ongoing problem for more than 20 years. In June 1981, Representative Philip Crane (R-IL) introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives proposing a $25,000 income tax deduction and a $25,000 estate tax exclusion for donating an organ (Tax Incentives 1981). Still the National Organ Transplant Act enacted in October 1984 prohibited the offering of any "valuable consideration" in return for organs (United States 1984).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10822/556900Date
2003-03Subject
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Bioethics Research Library, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
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