Kentucky man declared brain dead wakes up during organ harvesting

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According to a 2020 research report on transplant costs in the United States, the average costs for organ transplants include:

Heart transplant: $1,664,800
Lung transplant: $1,295,900 (double lung) or $929,600 (single lung)
Intestine transplant: $1,240,700
Liver transplant: $878,400
Kidney transplant: $442,500
Pancreas transplant: $408,800
This is from https://www.healthline.com/health/medicare/does-medicare-cover-transplants#transplant-coverage

From what I can glean, without diving terribly deep, even on Medicare you are paying 20% and the expenses of the person donating are not covered. so if we go for the next lowest cost, the kidney transplant is going to cost you personally, over $88,000 and you will have to jump through all the approval hoops that medical providers can invent. The justification for you paying the 20% is simple, they don't want you to use your insurance. They just want you to pay it.
I am not sure what percentage of the population can manage $88,000. Not everyone has a house they can sell, and this is one of the cheaper transplants.

It is very, very kind and forgiving to donate organs if you keep in mind that it will probably go to a millionaire. Our healthcare system is broken. If you compare the cost of US medical expenses to any other developed country, and then consider that the difference in cost is going to multimillionaires, and then consider that one multimillionaire is going to stay alive and another is making a fortune off of your healthcare expenses, donating organs is an amazingly generous act.