>>Not really...
At least not half as strange as your comments.
Beside the fact that you insinuate that the medical profession is wholly unethical, who else in the US works for no financial incentive...
Should transplant teams, physicians and hospital facilities be expected to operate at a moments notice for nothing?<<
I don't think our points are that different. Financial incentive is the great motivator of capitalist societies. I certainly don't think doctors or hospitals should work for free - nor do I want the government regulating prices for doctors or hospitals.
I do think it is strange that the AMA understands financial incentive so well for those doing the transplant but opposes even small payments to the donor's family. This creates artificial scarcity.
And yes, I know the AMA voted to support a study to see whether payments would ease the shortage. If they actually change their position and their lobbying pressure on the various bills to change the 1984 law, I promise to admit I was wrong about them.
Your mistake is that you believe the AMA represents Physicians...and in reality they do not. Less than 40% of physicians belong to the AMA and I would wager that the vast majority of those are primary care physicians.
The AMA is a hack left-wing organization and I want nothing to do with them, and most Doctors feel the same.