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Can illegal aliens receive organ transplants?

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Yes and no. A person has to prove that they will have stable private/public medical insurance or somehow be be able to pay for the meds that keep a recipient from rejecting the organ they are transplanted with. read more

According to some statistics, illegal immigrants donate about 2.5% of all transplanted organs annually in the US. However, they are recipients of less than 1% of all organ transplants. This disparity has some claiming that the system is heavily biased against undocumented immigrants. read more

Dear ignorant people arguing that immigrants are taking all the organs, they receive LESS than 1% of the organs available for transplant and provide 5% of those same organs. In a 10 year period nearly 500,000 got transplants and only about 3000 were to UDAs. They are people too. read more

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