Thank Goodness For the Germans

[helmut]

Here's a link that spells out "where the money goes:"

• Estimated U.S. Average 2008 First-Year Billed Charges Per Transplant.
  
• The detailed PDF can be found here: 2008 U.S. organ and tissue transplant cost estimates and discussion.

This is a interesting breakdown, thanks for posting it Justin. I suppose to really get a clearer picture of the charges I actual example of a case would have to be looked at. The description still sounds a bit vague, it seems like 100.000 is set aside for drugs and labtests if I see that correctly the single lung costs about 250.000 (but if you buy 2 lungs its only about 350.000 for the pair! good deal

I am not surprised the chinese don't wanna give up killing their prisoners for bodyparts, seems like an excellent business besides the drugs of course, I wonder what the mark up is on 100.000$ worth of drugs.