[rellimpank]

--what's wrong with a free market in donor organs? I suspect it would end the shortage, especially in kidneys since virtually all healthy people can get along with one---

[marktwain]

--what's wrong with a free market in donor organs? I suspect it would end the shortage, especially in kidneys since virtually all healthy people can get along with one---

Nothing is wrong with this, but it challenges the power of the existing system, which would rather have people die than allow consenting adults to contract for services.

[B.O. Plenty]

I agree....If someone offered $1,000,000 for one of my kidneys...we could do some business.

[Boot Hill]

"what's wrong with a free market in donor organs?"

The "free market" is just what the AFTS and LifeLink are engaged in. They claim to be exercising their right, under an unregulated free market situation, to provide neither product nor services to anyone attempting to engage other suppliers. This case is a good example of the logical limits to a libertarian free market, devoid of any regulation.

--Boot Hill