[Vaduz]

Why charge to save a life? everyone should donate you can't use the parts when your dead one liver can save four people from death,look at hep c stats.

[gondramB]

"Why charge to save a life? everyone should donate you can't use the parts when your dead one liver can save four people from death,look at hep c stats."

Why do we pay doctors? They SHOULD want to save lives without getting paid.... The reason is that market forces provide incentives beyond anything that guilt or government regulations can provide .

And paying $7000 for a heart valve isn't very of much of the total transplant cost which can be hundreds of thousands after the hospital and doctors are paid.

[Rodney King]

Why charge to save a life?

good God. Learn econ 101. By charging, you save lots and lots and lots of lives by creating the supply. No chare, no supply. The only thing that needs to be worked out here is a standard form so that the heir of dead people get the $$$, not crooked doctors. Better yet, you should be allowed to sell the right to your body parts now, and pocket the dicounted cash while still alive.