Two months ago, we released a report tallying the benefits of better compensation for live organ donors. Currently, live donors are left substantially out of pocket for their gift due to recovery time away from work and uncompensated costs. But every transplant saves the Ministry of Health around $125,000.
This week we sent our submission to the Health Select Committee. We argue in support of Chris Bishop’s members’ bill, and that it be strengthened in the following ways:
- Compensate donors to 100% of lost earnings, with some upper-bound cap so we aren’t paying huge amounts for a very high earner’s kidney (where finances are unlikely to be a barrier to donation anyway);
- Route that compensation through the Ministry of Health rather than make donors go through Work & Income;
- Compensate those not in employment either as though they were in employment at the minimum wage, or at their last…
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