The solution to the organ donation debate is easy.
Have everyone choose on their drivers license to Be a Donor or Be a Non Donor.
Those who elect to be A Donor will be permitted to receive donated organs.
Those who elect to be a Non Donor will not be permitted to receive donated organs.
nice try but hardly applicable to kidney or partial liver donations.
Or other types of donations which can be made while a person is alive. This is particularly true of bone marrow donors.
You solution is what germany uses for their socialized medicine BS.
I totally agree.
Not checking off "donor" on a license does not mean the person won't donate organs at some point. We just want to ensure hospitals don't jump at the chance to take our organs prematurely, as happened to the young man in this story. I don't check-off "donor" for the same reason I don't have a living will. I don't want hospitals jumping at the chance to pull the plug on me, either.
And a person who checks off "donor" may not have healthy organs to donate.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I have nothing against organ donation. It's the potential of abuse in organ donation that I don't trust.
I like the way you think.