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January 25, 2006
Why not try it in organs?
Reason take a non-hysterical look at the free market in egg and seamen donations in the United States. It seems that we've become a leading supplier where other countries are experiencing shortages from price fixing (regulations that fix the price at zero mostly). Paying donors (odd word in this case) for blood is routine , so why can't we get comfortable with selling organs? Seventy-one thousand people are waiting for organ donations, while Heart Disease, Strokes, and Accidents kill over 850,000 people a year. If just half of these people could donate, and 20% chose to sell their organs, just about everyone who needed an organ could have one.
Posted by OneEyedMan at January 25, 2006 4:35 PM
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