Why Selling Kidneys Should Be Legal

[okarol]

Why not get the rich people off the list and then the poor would have a shorter wait time.  Have both.  The rich can pay for their kidney and I can wait in a shorter line.  Geez what is so hard about that.

I play Mega Million twice a week waiting for my kidney.  Too bad someone in the United States will lose out on $50,000 because I'm going to go help some "poor" person in the Philippines.  HA HA   

MM I agree with YOU!

 

[MooseMom]

$50,000 for a kidney, we're talking real money for two; the pancreas not to mention the heart, liver, lungs. What, a quarter million dollars? For a young, otherwise healthy individual. Let's walk through what that means, given what we know about humans, before we open the doors for business.

I am not comfortable with assigning a price/value to individual organs, but in thinking more about this, it does occur to me that CMS has effectively put a price/value on the whole body and then entire life of a dialysis patient, which is, what, a $250 bundled payment thrice weekly...  That makes me go, "Hmmmmmm....."