People can be sentenced for up to five years if they use transplantable organs for money purposes. However, black-market organ trafficking exists under the law. In the article “ Organ Trafficking: An International Crime Infrequently Punished”, Susan Scutti reports that 10% of 106,879 organ transplant operations is performed with illegally harvested organs in 2010. Many patients are desperately of waiting for a transplant, so they decide to get a living organ from a black-market. “These unregulated systems can’t protect either organ donors or recipients. Therefore, the government should have an official payment program for organ donation, so they can control the organ trafficking. In the article “Should We Pay Donors to Increase The Supply of Organs For Transplantation”, Arthur J Matas suggests that the government or insurance companies provide “a fixed package of life insurance, long term health care insurance, and reimbursement for travel expense and time for out of work” for organ donors (1342). This plan can encourage people to donate their organs. The government can control the act of selling and buying human organs from
People can be sentenced for up to five years if they use transplantable organs for money purposes. However, black-market organ trafficking exists under the law. In the article “ Organ Trafficking: An International Crime Infrequently Punished”, Susan Scutti reports that 10% of 106,879 organ transplant operations is performed with illegally harvested organs in 2010. Many patients are desperately of waiting for a transplant, so they decide to get a living organ from a black-market. “These unregulated systems can’t protect either organ donors or recipients. Therefore, the government should have an official payment program for organ donation, so they can control the organ trafficking. In the article “Should We Pay Donors to Increase The Supply of Organs For Transplantation”, Arthur J Matas suggests that the government or insurance companies provide “a fixed package of life insurance, long term health care insurance, and reimbursement for travel expense and time for out of work” for organ donors (1342). This plan can encourage people to donate their organs. The government can control the act of selling and buying human organs from