[Valpal1]

We are dealing with a limited supply of human organs. Are you saying they should be allocated by the market? By supply and demand at whatever price the market will bear?

Is that what you are saying?

It’s the parents that brought in the government, courts and elected officials by pitching their media circus and filing a lawsuit.

Exactly how do you plan to have a market in human organs without government involvement and oversight?

Have you thought about what an unregulated market in human organs would look like? I suspect it would look a lot like the human trafficking, but bloodier, with human chop shops.

It’s not like we are dealing with a manufactured product. If we were, they’d grow them to order and their would be no controversy.

[Las Vegas Ron]

No FRiend, what I am saying is that I do not trust government to make these decisions, nor do they have any Constitutional authority to do so.

If anything, this should be a State issue, not the feds.

Life is not fair, this issue brings up some very complicated questions to be sure, but my view is it is better solved in a ways that is closer to the people then unaccountable DC bureaucrats.

I don't know about you, but Sebelius(sp?) and her commie friends making decisions about what coverage I get sends chill up my spine.

[caww]

...”what an unregulated market in human organs would look like?”...

There already is one..world-wide...and yes it's like human trafficking. In some cases woman are getting pregnant in order to “harvest” body parts.

[Diamond]

It’s the parents that brought in the government, courts and elected officials by pitching their media circus and filing a lawsuit.

Exactly how do you plan to have a market in human organs without government involvement and oversight?

On one hand you say that the parents were the ones who brought in the government, but on the other hand your second statement tacitly assumes that the government already has involvement and oversight. Which is it? The two statements are not coherent..

The first question that occurred to me when I saw this story is why the parents of a child have to beg a government bureaucrat like Kathleen Sebelius for permission to save their child's life.

Here is the Selected Statutory and Regulatory History of Organ Transplantation from the Government Alphabet Agency HHS. Where there are laws and regulations there are going to be attorneys and courts. When bureaucrats have the power to make life and death decisions then people have the right to challenge those decisions in a court of law. If you want the government involved then the courts are inevitably going to be involved as well.

Cordially,