It may “work” in Austria but I don’t think their medical system works for profit. I refuse to be an organ donor until they decide to pay my children for the organs. Everyone in the process here gets paid big bucks for a transplant operation. The doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists, hospital, etc. ALL make money off of the dead. Why shouldn’t my family, as well?
I for one have will certainly never consciously be caught on the wrong side of the capitalism issue, I approve thoroughly of entrepreneurialism. So I do not begrudge anyone making a profit off a legal activity, indeed, that is how we encourage legal activities so that we become the best at transplanting in the world. I do not know if the Austrian transplanters of organs are as good as the Americans with the technique, but they do operate their medical system for profit, though overregulated. If you can find a way to make an honest profit for yourself or your family on your body parts, please let me know and I will do it too.
Perhaps we could both agree that the family receive a market price for organs but we must be careful not to encourage the death industry to harvest parts illegally because that would get us back close to forced organ extraction from live victims. However, if enough people failed to opt out of the Kennedy program, the supply of organs would so greatly increase that the price would inevitably be greatly reduced which would, in my view, be a very desirable result.
Meanwhile, if the best we can get is the (gasp!) Kennedy proposal, even without provision for profit, I am for it as would no doubt those whose lives will be saved and it still leaves you free to opt out until a profit can be made.
