Many argued that poor people would come forward to sell their kidneys and would therefore be taken advantage of. What are your views i wonder ?
That is one thing I worried about. Another would be that the rich would all get kidneys while the poor who couldn't afford it would still wait. But then I was corrected in my forum's ethics section because if the rich were all buying kidneys then there would be less people on the waiting list and then the poor waiting on the list would benefit by getting transplanted sooner than currently. And as Mitch from the Philippines used to say, the poor who sell a kidney would be better off because they need the money.
But I am against the selling of organs myself. But there has been talk of instead of people paying out of pocket that instead the government would pay people to do live altruistic donation and that would help out. Still that might make taxes go up but the cost saved by less people on dialysis would probably even it out. I don't know the US system or the UK system enough to know.