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coyote · #68 (**permalink**) 06-03-2008, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf_22

I don't think the poor will be aided. and as I said, kidneys are free right now, but people can't always afford the surgery to get the new one.
when ever we have a pay-for, competative issue like this it ends the same way- the rich win and the poor lose.

The poor loose in the current system, because they have to compete with the rich in middle class for “free kidneys” Under the system I proposing the poor would win because the market place would be reduced for the free kidneys kidneys.

Furthermore let’s say a poor person wishes to donate his kidney and might suffer health risks as a result. Isn’t it better to be compensated? Therefore shouldn’t he profit from the sale of his kidney. Or let’s say he sold his kidney for one million dollars? He wouldn’t be poor anymore would he? It seems to me that if you really care about the poor you would be in favor of this option to escape poverty.

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Originally Posted by wolf_22

I think letting people sell will do more harm than good.
more people should donate organs or ensure they are registered to donate (many people have the intention to donate after death but forget to check their resistration.)
I think spending money on campaigns to get people aware of how doning can help others is the best thing we can do with this issue (at least for right now)

That is not going to work. In Spain they have a system where when you die the government assumes that you wanted to donate your organs for transplantation. So upon death your organs become the property of the government and are harvested. Even there, there are shortages because organ markets are illegal.