No, of course not.
Added: It is if you receive it from "outside" the designated organ donor system.
Well I can't say for sure on kidney transplant, but my husband just had a liver transplant and looks like it will be around $500,000 when all is said and done. Kidney transplants are cheaper.
Can't sell organs. It's illegal. The National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA), a federal law, makes it illegal to buy or sell organs for profit. You can be sentenced to five years in prison or a $50,000 fine, or both.
No, you cannot sell a kidney. Organ sales are illegal in the US and UK. however, there is debate about whether or not this should be legalized.
If you live in the US, you cannot. It is illegal to possess them.
In the US, I do not believe that it is 'illegal,' per se, to sell your kidney. However it is legally and ethically unlawful for anyone to harvest a healthy kidney from your body for a "for profit" SALE to another party. This, of course, excludes the donation of a kidney to a loved one or, as an act of charity, a recepient specified by the kidney donor.
No. You must be a citizen to receive benefits.
Every humans' organs work in the same way. A kidney is still a kidney, a liver is still a liver, a heart and a lung are still a heart and a lung. Medical advances and knowledge allow us to basically chop out, move and reconnect these in another body, effecting the transplant.
Today, there are 62 UNOS-member OPOs serving defined geographic transplant regions within the US.
about 3,000 transplants are performed each year
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Dick Cheney is recovering from heart transplant surgery.
There are 11 transplant regions in the US overseen by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). These regions help coordinate organ allocation and ensure fairness in the distribution of organs to patients on the transplant waitlist.