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To: cksharks
That may be but I'm more concerned about living donors and the fact that the person who donated your new heart did so instead of selling it is a tribute to them.

I'm curious to know how you would feel about it if it was a situation where you're new heart was up for bid and your insurance company lost the bid to someone else's insurance company or the other persons insurance was willing to pay more.

The reality is that if you start selling organs then you have to let value be determined by the free market and we'd all lose out to the Saudis.

I hope that you and your new heart are getting along well.

21 posted on 01/04/2002 1:03:23 PM PST by Bikers4Bush
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To: Bikers4Bush
If you believe in the free market and look into its operation you find that it increases supply and decreases price. Since food is essential for life why not have Government supply it so that the rich don’t bid the price up and out of reach of the rest of us. The result of this organ program would be to increase the supply thereby benefiting many more people than the current system.
24 posted on 01/04/2002 1:15:06 PM PST by Fish out of Water
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