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To: trumandogz
A human life is a human life and when and if that time comes my organs are available to anyone. My Donor Card is Signed!

That's great (and I mean that). But I think you are not in the majority.

Anyway, my big problem with the donor system is that I don't want to help a silly rationing system when a free market would free up millions of organs. For example, the organs are worth A LOT of money. Let's say my organs are worth 500K. There is a certain probability that I will die in a manner such that my organs become useful to someone else. Discount back 25 years, and an insurance company or someone else ought to be able to pay me 10K or so for the rights to my organs if I die. I would do that. So would millions of others who right now have not filled out their donor cards.

The reason this is not done is two-fold. One, the communal types don't like people making money, and the organ bit makes their rhetoric more powerful. 2nd, and most important, right now the doctors and everyone else involved gets your multi-hundred-thousands dollar input into their multi-hunderd-thousand dollar operations for free. They'd hate to have to pay for the damned thing.

It is simply economic fact: Price controls result in shortages. The price on organs is set at zero, therefore, there is a massive shortage. There is nothing unique about this product compared to all the other attempts that socialists have attempt price controls. They ALWAYS result in shortages. In this case, people die as a result.

86 posted on 03/26/2007 4:13:58 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Rodney King
Uncertainly, I have to agree with you.


Everyone in the Donor Pipeline makes money except for the donor's family.

However, it would be rather grotesque to have organs sold to the highest bidder. Perhaps there should be some tax break for families that donate.

However, my solution would be to limit or ban the donation of organs to people that refuse to sign a Donor Card.

99 posted on 03/26/2007 4:20:47 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: Rodney King

I don;t like the idea of a hospital looking at me as worth more to them dead and a cache of body parts, than alive and having an insurance company pay the bill for my stay.

I just don't trust them that much.


102 posted on 03/26/2007 4:22:11 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do suck seed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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To: Rodney King
Anyway, my big problem with the donor system is that I don't want to help a silly rationing system when a free market would free up millions of organs.

"COMA", the Movie comes to mind...ever watched it? Scary thought, for it is so very doable, if the system is deregulated and the free market is set loose.

Be careful what you wish for...it just might come true and bite you in the butt!

253 posted on 03/26/2007 7:18:24 PM PDT by danmar (Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today!)
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