UA professor: Bill to offer $50K tax credits for kidney donations has ‘significant’ ethical issues

A bill in Congress would create a pilot project, allowing for people who donate kidneys to an anonymous recipient on the national kidney waitlist to get a $50,000 tax credit, spread over five years. The National Kidney Foundation reports more than 100,000 Americans need a kidney transplant, around 17,000 get one each year. This proposal aims to increase that last number.

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