Post by Gelare on Aug 19, 2009 13:15:00 GMT -5
www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A5JP080&show_article=1
In 2005, a rebellious and sporadically employed Israeli man flew to New York to give up a kidney to save an American businessman. For that, he says he was paid $20,000, which appeared in a brown envelope on his hospital bed after the operation.
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Last year, 4,540 Americans died while on transplant lists, waiting for kidneys. The man who got Rosen's kidney says he almost died, too.
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"This is months of tests and recuperation. And you can't work, and it makes a lot of sense to compensate," Rosen says.
In 2005, a rebellious and sporadically employed Israeli man flew to New York to give up a kidney to save an American businessman. For that, he says he was paid $20,000, which appeared in a brown envelope on his hospital bed after the operation.
...
Last year, 4,540 Americans died while on transplant lists, waiting for kidneys. The man who got Rosen's kidney says he almost died, too.
...
"This is months of tests and recuperation. And you can't work, and it makes a lot of sense to compensate," Rosen says.