Would You Give a Kidney to a Stranger for $100K?

By Brad Tuttle | @bradrtuttle | March 31, 2010 | +

When posed the question in a recent survey, many respondents said, “Where do I sign?”

The study, published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine, asked 342 participants whether they would donate a kidney with varying payments of $0, $10,000 and $100,000. The study called for a real-world test of a regulated payment system.

The possibility of payments nearly doubled the number of participants in the study who said they would donate a kidney to a stranger, but it did not influence those with lower income levels more than those with higher incomes, according to Scott Halpern, one of the study’s authors and senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics.

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