The Cost of Generosity.

[Rerun]

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/health-care/cost-generosity

[Jean]

 Sucks!!!!!!

[Michael Murphy]

This is like a theater of the absurd.  The inmates are running the asylum.  There should be assistance to donors through the insurance that covers the transplant.

[okarol]

There is assistance available for living donors, as mentioned in the article.

National Living Donor Assistance Center https://www.livingdonorassistance.org/potentialdonors/applicationprocess.aspx
American Living Organ Donor Fund http://www.helplivingdonorssavelives.org/
American Transplant Foundation http://www.americantransplantfoundation.org/programs/pap/